Where are we? Is this the desert? Is it the great and terrible wilderness that the Bible calls Sinai? Is it the sparkling sand of the Egyptian desert, with no grass for pasture?
This is the place where you come to be nothing but yourself. This is the place to know yourself as a creature solitary and poor, a creature utterly dependent upon God. This is the place of madness, the devil's refuge, where thirst and hunger will drive you mad …
My stupidity: that's our desert, W. says. That's where we're stranded, W. says: in the desert of my stupidity.
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