PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

“You who have said: Lord, my refuge!  and have made the Most High your dwelling.” The psalm does not say that the world has become safe. It does not promise that harm will cease or that suffering will be explained. It names something far more severe and far more liberating. It declares that refuge is not found in conditions, outcomes, or protections, but in a Person. The Most High is not a shelter built to keep the world out. He is a dwelling entered precisely because the wor