"and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me."
I have a good friend who just celebrated 40 years of sobriety. He is very active in the recovery community and is in many ways, by nature of his call, a public face for Alcoholics Anonymous within the city. Last spring he led a series of discussions at Second B on addiction and recovery. When he told his own story and spoke of his first year of sobriety after 20 years of drinking, he said his mother looked at him and said, "Your eyes are looking out again, son."
The eyes are a window into the soul. When we see someone looking out with a twinkle of light beaming from their eyes then we know they are alive. The radiance of the eyes tell us so. But when the eye gives out no light, but rather absorbs it all like a black hole then it is plain to any mother who can see that something in the soul of her son or her daughter has dimmed and grown dark.
"Your eye is a lamp that provides for your body," Jesus said. "When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be filled with darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness."
Look in the mirror. Are your eyes looking out or in? Do they give off light or do they absorb it all?
What are your eyes saying about your soul?
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