Michael C. Porcia, S.J. (“Dark Night: Weaning from One’s Image of God: Toward Spiritual Maturity”) explains how the human person develops a mature relationship with God. This happens when the person lets go of her/his puerile idea of God. St. John of the Cross uses an analogy to describe how God treats the human soul. He likens God to a mother who nurtures her child with the “sweet milk” of consolations but, as the child grows bigger, eventually weans it by putting “bitter aloes” upon her breast so it will lose the habit of a child and learn to take on more substantial responsibilities. Porcia detects a similar process of weaning—a dialectic between attachment and detachment, between “holding on” and “letting go”—that occurs at key transitional phases of re-imaging God in J. Fowler’s seven stages of faith development in a person. – F. Ramirez (ed.)