dan allender says:

"The healing path must pass through the desert or else our healing will be the product of our own will and wisdom. It is in the silence of the desert that we hear our dependence on noise. It is in the poverty of the desert that we see clearly our attachments to the trinkets and baubles we cling to for security and pleasure.
The desert shatters the soul's arrogance and leaves body and soul crying out in thirst and hunger. In the desert, we trust God, or we die."

*sigh*

Dan Allender just knows.