Blog 580 – 03.23.2017

You Have Your Mother’s Eyes

If you are at all familiar with the world of Harry Potter you know that Harry grew up without a mother or a father but is often reminded by those who knew his mother that he has his mother’s eyes. That is especially meaningful later in the series when you learn that Professor Serverus Snape, whom Harry thinks loaths him, was very much in love with Harry’s mother and took a secret vow to always watch over Harry. Serverus saw love maybe for the first time in Harry’s mother’s eyes and never got over it. Harry’s mother’s love protected Harry from the greatest danger in his life. And she gave him her eyes.

We have our Mother’s eyes. God is so often pictured as a Father that we are shocked by books and movies like The Shack when God is portrayed as a Loving Mother. We ought not be for most of us get our first glimpse of the Divine reflected in a loving mother’s eyes. What exactly do we see in God’s eyes but ourselves reflected totally loved. That is what Severus saw in Harry’s mother’s eyes. How fortunate we are to see love reflected in the eyes of another. Others are I think our mirrors and we to them reflecting back to each other ourselves quite literally. There is in psychology a term called “projection” Where we project upon others those things we have trouble believing and accepting about ourselves usually our fears and weaknesses but it is equally true of our more noble higher attributes. Oh, joy of joys to see love reflected in the eyes of others. I am reminded of a great truth put into a simple motto, “You get back what you put out.” Or put another way, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” You have your Mother’s eyes for beauty. I woke up thinking, “All creatures great and small, the Lord God loves them all.” And as is my custom I changed two words and it made even more sense to me, “All creation great and small, the Lord God loves it all.” What is not to love, only those little things about ourselves that we see reflected in others that we still have not learned to love.

We need to learn to see through those Loving Mother’s eyes that we all inherited till we can truly see as She sees and love all creation great and small, truly love it all. And that, my friends, begins with not loving God first, nor others but ourselves. That is the challenge, the reason we are here. As my calendar page said the other day, “I have come here to learn to love myself more and to share that love with all those around me.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White