Scripture  

Luke 4:1–2, 13 (NRSV)  

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan  

and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,  

where for forty days He was tempted by the devil.  

He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, He was famished...  

When the devil had finished every test,  

he departed from Him until an opportune time.

Refrain  

In the wild, the truth becomes clear.

Poem  

David Whyte, from The House of Belonging

“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet  

confinement of your aloneness  

to learn  

anything or anyone  

that does not bring you alive  

is too small for you.  

There are voices that want to shape you  

into something safer,  

but you were not made to live in fear.  

You were made to live awake.”

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