Embracing the Desert: A Journey of Stripping Away to Find God's Hermitage Within

Being stuck is sometimes a call to be still.

To receive the grace of God, you must go to a desert place and stay a while. There you can be emptied and unburdened of everything that doesn’t pertain to God. There the house of your soul is swept clean to make room for God alone to dwell…We need this silence, this absence of every creature, so that God can build his hermitage in us.^⁠1

Two sisters in my…