PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Psalm 73 and the Shattering of Spiritual Illusion Like a dream one wakes from O Lord when you wake you dismiss them as phantoms. ⸻ There is a quiet violence in the way God saves us. He does not always tear our idols from our hands. Often he simply wakes us. And what we had clung to with such intensity dissolves in the light like mist. What felt necessary what felt meaningful what felt holy is suddenly revealed as something far more fragile than we knew. The psalmist speaks of