Moving towards Easter in the Desert

For the last weeks of Lent until Easter, we will provide daily reflections on the a desert journey. The citations come from John Moses, The Desert. An Anthology for Lent (Harrisburg, PA.: Morehouse, 1997).


Testing

“If some temptation arises in the place where you dwell in the desert, do not leave that place in time of temptation. For if you leave it then, no matter where you go, you will find the same temptation waiting for you.”

A Desert Father

“The desert cell is Hell’s cockpit, no less than a royal palace or the trader’s bazaar, a maiden’s thighs or the scholar’s desk.

“But what is played out there takes its costume from the hidden thought of each actor. Shape and symbol are invested with power from conjoined dread and desire, both drawn from a soul’s deepest wells.”

Derek Webster