PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Learning to begin again without possession “Stand on the edge of your thoughts and say, ‘Lord, come.’ And He will come.” — Sophrony of Essex There is something almost childlike in this cry. “In the morning let me know your love…” Not prove it. Not explain it. Not secure it. Let me know it. The Fathers would say this is the beginning of everything. Not knowledge as certainty. But knowledge as encounter. We wake, and immediately the mind begins to move. Toward yesterday. Toward