Whether you are on the sand worshipping, or at the teacher’s desk in a classroom, what does it matter as long as you are doing the will of God? And if the will of God urges you to seek out the poor, to give up all you possess, or to leave for distant lands, what does the rest matter? Or if it calls you to found a family, or take on a job in a city why should you have any doubts? “His will is our peace,” says Dante. And perhaps that is the expression which best brings into focus our deep dependence on God.

–Carlo Carretto, Letters from the Desert