PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Meditation on Psalm 127 Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it. These words have become a slow revelation to me, learned not in sudden light but in the long dusk of years. I have spent much of my life building structures of vocation, identity, and ministry: all meant, I thought, to honor God. Yet in time they have fallen, one after another, until only the bare foundation of the heart remained. What I once mistook for failure has proven to be the Lord