I did not want to walk through that neighborhood. I was afraid. But I wanted to be home. Sometimes we need to walk on the wild side. Sometimes we need to walk through a wilderness to find our home.
Temptation is a wilderness.
It is experienced in the wilderness of the soul. Sometimes we don't want to go there. We are afraid of what we may find. Perhaps we will discover the true cross. In this dream this man stood on a mountain slope with a deep valley below, and in it a dark lake.