PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Love returned as offering in the day of affliction “I will walk in the presence of the Lord in the land of the living.” — Psalm 116:9 (Grail Translation) I love the Lord for He has heard the cry of my appeal. The psalm begins not with an argument but with a confession of love born from being heard. Affliction presses the heart until prayer becomes a cry rather than a thought. In that narrowing the soul discovers something decisive. God has not turned away His ear. He has incl