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Around 1999-2000 I heard about the “Dark Night of the Soul.” Nearly two decades later it finally makes sense to me. I experienced the dark night of the soul in 2014 on a night when all of my secrets came out in the open. My soul was set free and I am no longer a slave to fear. If the dark night of the soul is the night when the enemy (i.e. the flesh, the devil/demons, and the world) is silenced, I most certainly experienced this night as I knelt before my wife and became fully known to her. "When the soul enters into the dark night, all these things are put under control. The flesh will be quieted, the devil will be silent, and the fear will subside, all because of the fact that God takes away all of the sensory pleasure, and the soul is purified in the absence of it" (Devotional Classics, p. 35). Prior to this dark night of the soul was the darkest period of my life. I was seven years into marriage and just under a decade of ministry. In hindsight, I see how my soul slowly became calloused and where