PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Meditation Based on Psalm 11 Grail Translation What is it, Lord, that You see when You look upon the heart?  The psalmist tells us: “The Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord, whose throne is in heaven. His eyes look down on the world; His gaze tests mortal men.”   This gaze is not that of an observer, detached and judging from afar.  It is the gaze of the Creator who searches His image within the creature, who longs to see Himself reflected once again in the soul He has fashi