...the wilderness,

where she has a place

         prepared by God,

in which she is

    to be nourished...

             Revelation 12. 6

(The wilderness is

often a place where we ask,

"What in the world am I

               doing here?

     Did I make a wrong turn?"

         into a place of loneliness,

              into a place of isolation,

        where I don't want to be.

But in Scripture and in God's eyes,

the wilderness is

              a place of wonder and awe,

      and never a barren spot,

but a trail of tremendous growth

             and God's revealing.

The circumstances

    nor the landscape may not change,

but God transforms me in it.

Do not fear the wilderness,

              but embrace God in it.

You are not alone.  Never alone.

   Never without profound purpose.

God Himself

     walks with you in the woods.)