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).

The Darkness of Faith

“The experience of prayer in the desert shows that what we normally consider light is our own light, not God’s. The desert requires us to put out our little flame. Then, in the absence of human lights, our eyes will get used to the brightness of God’s light. Darkness there is the prerequisite for seeing. It then becomes futile to attempt to see God’s light with the aid of our light. All too readily we cry out ‘Lord, grant that I may see!’ But few of us seem prepared to receive the gift of sight through the painful process of becoming blind first.”

Alessandro Pronzato