PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

“Let the wound become a door into the desert, and there learn again that God is enough.” There are wounds that cannot be repaired. No explanation will undo them. No apology may come. No one may ever understand what was taken from you. The desert fathers would not tell us to pretend otherwise. They would tell us to enter the wound. Not to live there in bitterness, but to pass through it. For sometimes the wound becomes the door through which God leads us away from everything w