Blog 626 – 05.08.2017
The Light In Your Eyes

I believe there is an artist in each of us for we have an eye for beauty wherever we see it. Grant you we all have different tastes and might argue sometimes over what is most beautiful. Eyes are beautiful and someone has said that the eyes are the windows of the soul. A friend told me the other day that they wished the people who read my blogs could see the look of love in my eyes as I write them. Often as I reach deep for something I hope will be truly moving it brings a tear to my eyes. Nothing makes things so clear as tears and nothing makes your eyes shine so brightly as love and love often expresses itself in tears – tears of joy, tears of sadness, and most wonderful of all those tears that flow when we are just so touched, so moved, by beauty that our appreciation leaks out of our eyes.

When artists try to sketch or to paint the eye they always put a dot of light in the eye to make it come alive. A line from a lovely romantic ballad comes to mind, “When I saw the light in your eye.” The lovely Mandy Moore sang a touching love song called, “Cry.”

“It was late in September
I’d seen you before
You were always the cool one
I never that sure.

You were looking up,
At a cold gray sky
The moment
I saw you cry.”

That young woman’s heart was touched, changed, by the light it his eyes reflected by his tears. As a very young man I had an unusual painting of Jesus smiling and his eyes were smiling as well but a far more moving portrait I saw later has haunted me in a good way all my life. I thought it too was a portrait of Jesus but I found it to be a portrayal of Krishna instead. It was dark but the eyes of the bearded smiling figure literally flowed and glowed with love. I consciously try to keep a smile on my face most of the time but have for these last years of my life tried to maintain a look of love in my eyes. It is I think one if not the greatest gift that we can give others. And yes, I heard that remark from the peanut gallery, someone saying that they were partial to diamonds, silver, and gold but would accept cash. Seriously, though, what greater gift is their between lovers, between a parent and a child, between siblings, or between friends than the look of love?

Some of you may be asking how do I put a look of love in my eyes? My method of course is to try to hold a thought of love in my heart and mind but like smiling I find that practicing in the mirror helps. Do you smile at yourself in the mirror? Do you look at yourself lovingly in the mirror? Do you say to yourself in the mirror as sweetly as you can, ‘I love you and I am so glad and grateful that I get to spend this life with you?” You might say, “Dave you really are crazy.” That is really beside the point. Charity (a King James Bible word for love) begins at home. If you do not love you how do you ever expect to love anyone else. The same measure, smile, or look that you use with you is all you have to use with others.

I see that light in your eye and it is more than enough to read by, Gorgeous. Oh, yeah next time you practice that smile, that I love you, and that look of love in the mirror, don’t forget to say, “Hello, Gorgeous.” That ought to get you smiling.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White