Our Journey through the Deserts

The Silent Hour (Maynard Dixon)

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In the desert, man becomes aware of how small and resourceless he is, how much at the mercy of the Creator whom all the elements obey.

- A Monk

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“Enoch walked with God, and was no more because God took him.” Enoch walked with God because there were no more places left on earth in his time in which to walk. He stepped into, as it were, the desert of the heart—that place of solitude with God that cannot be measured (not even by self); no advancements can be marked; it cannot be exploited and therefore cannot be lost. We are invited to walk the way of Enoch in the time and place  which have been given to us.

-David Morrison

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When one speaks of the soul's desert, and says that the desert must be present in your life, you must not think only of the Sahara or the desert of Judea...If you cannot go into the desert, you must nonetheless "make some desert" in your life. Every now and then leaving men and looking for solitude to restore, in prolonged silence and prayer, the stuff of your soul. This is the meaning of 'desert' in your life...you must leave everything and everybody and retire, alone with God. If you don't look for this solitude, if you don't love it, you won't achieve real contemplative prayer.

-Carlo Carretto

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From Deserts to Oceans
From Interior Prisons to Eternal Skies--
Wherever and However We find Ourselves,
The Lord is Present.

-David Morrison

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Sky and Sandstone (Maynard Dixon)