"The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in your is darkness, how great is the darkness!" Matthew 6:22-23
This time of year has gotten difficult for me the last few years. I love the fall and winter but the dark days don't love me back. Add in a very hectic schedule and some other things and I find myself fighting to stay in the light physically and metaphorically. It doesn't take much stress to send me into a weeping heap or looking to hide myself under the covers. One of the few things that helps is exercise. This is one thing in which I have learned that I have to put myself first but don't always resolve to do it. Sometimes I still resort to the proverbial "taking to her bed".
So then, to see yourself rising can have multiple meanings here. Rising out of bed, rising to new levels or even raising your own self image, the effect can have a great impact on your life. If as the author suggests, you can never rise higher than the image you have of yourself, it behooves me to start working on the image in my mind of myself. What do I really think of myself? Do I hold myself to the same esteem (or higher or lower) than others do? In this best life I want for myself, do I have a higher image of myself?
Instead of looking outward with my eyes maybe it's time to look inward in my mind's eye through the darkness to see what lies beyond.
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