PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

God consoles the wounded heart so that it may become a place of consolation for others “Who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction.” — 2 Corinthians 1:4 There are wounds we would never have chosen. There are sorrows we would gladly have been spared, losses whose meaning we cannot discover, seasons when prayer itself seems reduced to remaining before God because nothing else is possible. And yet Saint Paul speaks of