ministry. It is where each of us is called to begin our renewed path toward the Divine. Scholar of religion Andrew Harvey once wrote, “The things that ignore us save us in the end. Their presence awakens silence in us; they refresh our courage with the purity of their detachment.”8 One of the goals of spiritual life in desert tradition was detachment from our desires and agendas. Being in the desert landscape reminds us of what that means on a visceral level. The harshness of that landscape helps