"This is the lesson I try to communicate to my students. Our mountaintop experiences of God and His grace are wonderful, and cause for gratitude and rejoicing. But God never leaves us on the mountaintop. Once we have been nourished and learned to obey in the sunlight of God's felt presence, surrounded by His hedge of protection, He then sends us outside the camp, into the wilderness, where the heat of temptation saps our strength and spiritual refreshment is hard to come by... This is God's way, the way of the cross, and the proper response is to rejoice in the sufferings so that we may rejoice in the glory when it is revealed. We must learn the biblical lesson that God often sends lions to chase us so that we, like Bree, can discover that we weren't going quite as fast as we could. Like Shasta, we must learn to fall off the horse and "get up again without crying and mount and fall again and yet not be afraid of falling" (Ch 1.)."