The Spiritual Flu

I thank God for this bit of spiritual manna this afternoon:

"Sometimes I just know that I am going to come down with an attack of atheism again.  It's like the flu.  Spiritual flu, I call it.  I get ready to endure three or four days of doubt and deep distance from God.  Then through the grace of God, I find myself spiritually well again." (Madeleine L'Engle as quoted in Out of the Question...Into the Mystery by Leonard Sweet, p.113)

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[Just Me]

Thank goodness for the doubt of others - but how is it that one gets the "spiritual flu"? Is your resistance down? Are you attacked by a demonic germ? Or is it just that only through weakness we are made strong? Unlike L'Engle, I don't always see it coming, just wake up and there it is.