PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Ascetic Waiting at the Edge of the World John stands at the edge of the world, neither inside its comfort nor entirely outside its need. He does not flee creation, yet he refuses its consolations. The desert is not his protest but his truth. There, stripped of noise and reputation, his life becomes a single gesture of waiting. Not the waiting of one who delays obedience, but the waiting of one who prepares the way by removing every obstacle within himself that would hinder th