Week 3 in the Good Lord Deliver Us series about the Great Litany as Survival Guide for the Via Media in Exile. Lent eventually stops being symbolic and becomes real. By Week Three, the wilderness strips away our illusions of control and leaves us facing the ancient question rising from every displaced people: Is the Lord among us or not? This week’s movement in the Great Litany—the obsecrations—teaches the via media how to survive exile by letting go of outcomes and grounding hope in what God has already done. Through water from the rock, the warning of Psalm 95, Paul’s stubborn logic of hope, and the Samaritan woman’s encounter with living water, we learn the discipline of holy indifference: releasing our grip on the future and trusting the One who meets us in the wilderness. Lent invites us to loosen our buckets, relinquish our strategies, and pray with honesty: Good Lord, deliver us.