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FROM THE HEART
    Reflection of Father Laurence Freeman’s Lecture at Saint Luke of the
    Fields
      
    In November, on a Thursday night, some adventurous souls traveled to a
    small church, Saint Luke’s of the Fields in Greenwich Village New York, to
    hear a priest talk of love.

    The priest was father Laurence Freeman, and the talk seemed innocent
    enough, but if one really listened one could see that father Laurence was
    throwing down the gauntlet, making a challenge to all those who had
    ventured to hear him that night.

    Father Laurence was asking the audience to make a 360-degree turn
    away from the way of the world to the way of silence.
    He was asking us to turn from our small selfish desires and allow pure
    love to enter our hearts and to rule there.

    He was asking us to thread the eye of a needle with a camel, he was
    asking us to let go of all our past, of all our future, and to simply rest in
    any given moment and find the Eternal Truth that our Lord Jesus had
    taught us about in His good news.

    This good priest was asking us to turn to the Father in an age, which is
    war torn and fragmented, where money is god and information replaces
    knowledge and wisdom.

    Father Laurence was asking us to become whole again and he was telling
    us that we had a tool, passed on from the desert father’s up to the
    present in a rich tradition that is alive and well.

    It is a tradition that lives and breathes each time we come into the
    present moment with love for God, our neighbor and our selves as the
    motivating force of life.

    It is a tradition that lives when we carry the silence into our day and meet
    all of God’s creatures from this still point, with no personal agenda in
    control.

    The tool is meditation and the great gift is the mantra.

    The way is simple, but are we prepared to pick up the challenge and to
    come out of the dream and to live, and to serve?  Are we prepared to
    change our whole perspective?

    Sandy Lee Lofaso
    November 2007
    United States