Light Streams In

Sometimes we treat the daily noise, the hustle and bustle of our lives, as the enemy of the spiritual: we grow distracted and forget to see God in every detail. The Kingdom of Heaven truly surrounds us, but we must develop eyes sensitive enough to see it.

We may feel like we’re surrounded by division and isolation (even here in the Church, where this truly should not be!), but St. Porphyrios urges us to trust in God, and to believe that Christ has already defeated darkness. We don’t have to work to dispel darkness, we don’t have to fight evil with evil — we just have to look to Christ: just open a window, and the light will stream in, and the darkness will just disappear...