Carlo Carretto, one of the great spiritual writers of our time, once spent a number of years living by himself, as a hermit, praying in the Sahara desert. When someone asked him what he thought he heard God say to him in all that silence and after all that prayer, Caretto replied, God is telling us: learn to wait–wait–wait for your God, wait for love, be patient with everything. Everything that is worthwhile must be waited for!