Ultimately one becomes indifferent even to God, remaining blithely unconcerned about particular answers to prayer, about anything one might previously have wanted to “get” from God. One waits, instead, in curiosity to see what comes in the dark uncertainty of the night, content simply with God alone. Prayer becomes less a matter of petition than of relationship. Moving beyond the objectifying of one’s self, one’s neighbor, one’s God, the wilderness traveler arrives at that lonely desert place where love is now possible because it finally is wholly free, released of every frantic need to
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