PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Desire, Wonder, and the Healing Vision of Christ “God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.” — Wisdom 1:13 There are passages in Sacred Scripture that seem less like arguments than like windows. They do not seek to convince us so much as to allow us to see. This brief passage from the Book of Wisdom is one of them. In only a few lines it unveils the deepest truth about creation and, in doing so, exposes one of humanity’s oldest lies. “God did