PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The Freedom of a Heart That Has Forgotten the Room “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.” — Luke 7:50 Everyone in the room is looking at the woman. The woman is looking only at Jesus. Perhaps this is the most beautiful thing about her. She enters the house already known. Her reputation has arrived before her. Simon does not need to ask who she is. He knows—or thinks he knows. A sinner. The others surely know as well. But she seems almost unaware of them. She does not explai

Christ does not promise us a life without disturbance. He gives us Himself in the midst of it. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.” — John 14:27 We often imagine peace as the moment when everything finally settles. The conflict ends. The illness passes. The decision becomes clear. The person we love is safe. The future opens before us again. Then, we tell ourselves, we will have peace. But this is not the peace Christ give