Like a child that wants to avoid his or her medicine it was the last thing I wanted to say. Everything, I believe. It is a statement of total surrender. God, you are my reason for living. Whenever resentment, anger, bitterness, or lack of understanding comes to my heart, it is a phrase, that surrendering to God, which strengthens, heals, and fills my heart with love again.
Strange things happen in Lent.
Inanimate objects can talk. Just take a walk into your kitchen. The forty days and forty nights which Jesus spent in the desert were very real. In Jesus' time, the desert was not a place for hikers. It was a place where there were packs of wild dogs.