referring to driving out demons - before he's driven out, look what has just happened.. Before the Wilderness - the water and the affirmation from heaven - 'I love you. You are loved. I'm so proud of you.' The words that refresh in the dry dust and heat of the desert. The words that give strength in the testing time. Mark's writing is brief, but in its simplicity, I think it invites us to go deeper into our imaginations and find our own desert and see what lurks there. The journey we begin this Lent, may include reflecting on those broken, scarred and raw places of Wilderness that we've experienced over this last year - places of sorrow, sickness and despair. The journey may mean sifting through issues of who we are, and what really matters - exploring our hunger,