Knowledge of the Heart

The goal of our lives, the aim of prayer as a means to this end, is to know, love and serve God. Knowledge can be intellectual, experiential and intuitive. All three can and should be part of our daily path to God and lead us to the truth that the better we know, the easier it is to love. Study, needs no explanation: we read, we listen to speakers, we discuss with friends, we learn from one another. If we pay attention to our everyday experiences and those of others, and reflect on them, we learn in a more lasting way, one that we do not tend to forget, for we have lived them. Our intuitive knowledge, the knowledge that seems to come "from the gut" or that we describe as simply "being there" in our hearts, is perhaps the truest and most direct knowledge, but the one we seem to trust the least. And yet, it is this knowledge that is the most direct, for it is linked to the heart, it flows from the heart, it touches and moves the heart. It's the knowledge/love that in an instant can bring two people together in the love of friendship. It is the knowledge/love that brings us into the heart of God, and vice, versa, God into our hearts. All we need to do is trust it, and, as Mary did at the Annunciation, receive it. Christ came to be born in her because of it, and Christ can be born in us. "Behold the servant of the Lord. Be it done to me according to your Word." Bro. Rene