PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

On Memory, Desire, and the Unfinished Places of the Heart “Search me, O God, and know my heart.” Psalm 139:23 There are seasons in the spiritual life when old faces return without warning. A person from youth, a friendship long vanished, a tenderness once offered and never received, suddenly rises before the mind with unusual force. Many become troubled by this and think immediately that they are falling backward, that nostalgia has overcome them, or that temptation has enter