I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU

‘THE EYES HAVE IT!”

THESE ARE SUCH TOUGH TIMES. WE ALL KNOW IT . WE ALL FEEL IT. YET WE ARE APART . WE HAVE TO BE. BUT THE MASKS KEEP US EVEN MORE SEPARATED FROM THE SHARING OF A BASIC KINDNESS : THE SMILE.

I TRULY BELIEVE THAT ‘WE ARE ONE’ YET WHEN WE ARE APART FROM OUR ‘MEMBERS’ WE ARE….DISMEMBERED!

I SAW AN ACTUAL ARTICLE IN OUR NEWSPAPER THAT TALKED ABOUT HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR EYES ONLY. I SCOFFED AT IT…’FURROW YOUR BROW TO SHOW THAT YOU ARE ANGRY’ OR ‘RAISE YOUR EYEBROWS TO SHOW YOU ARE CONFUSED’ …KIND OF THING. BUT THERE IS ACTUALLY SOME VALUE TO LEARNING HOW TO COMMUNICATE AND REACH OUT TO EACH OTHER IN THESE TIMES.

HOW DO WE STAY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER WITHOUT BEING AFRAID? HOW DO WE REACH OUT BUT STAY APART? HOW CAN WE SHARE OUR FEARS AND HOW CAN WE EASE THE LONELINESS OF OTHERS?

I HEARD THIS INCREDIBLE SENTENCE IN A LOVELY (AUDIO)BOOK CALLED,’THE MAN ON THE MOUNTAINTOP‘. HE(THE MAN ON THE MOUNTAINTOP) SAID, ‘PAIN IS THRUST UPON US BUT SUFFERING IS VOLUNTARY’. I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN TAKE AWAY SOME OF OUR OWN SUFFERING BY REACHING OUT TO OTHERS IN THESE DARK TIMES. I HAVE FOUND THAT I FORGET ABOUT A LOT OF MY PAIN WHEN I GIVE MY LOVE TO OTHERS. PAYING IT FORWARD OR DOING WEE ACTS OF KINDNESS …EVEN IF IT TAKES JUST A MOMENT OF STRESS OUT OF ANOTHER’S DAY …IS SUCH A WORTHY RESPONSE.

WE ALL HAVE PAIN. BUT IF WE LOOK ABOVE THE MASK AND BEYOND OUR OWN SUFFERINGS WE CAN SEE THAT OTHERS NEED US AND WE NEED THEM TOO.

1 Corinthians 12:20
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

LET US BE EYES FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT SEE . (SEND AN AUDIO BOOK!). LET’S BE LEGS FOR THE PARTS OF OUR ‘BODY’ WHO CANNOT WALK (BRING OUR HOUSEBOUND NEIGHBOUR SOME COOKIES!) LET US BE ARMS FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT HOLD (BRING YOUR FRIEND SOME FLOWERS!) AND LET US USE OUR EYES TO LOOK AROUND, SEE PARTS OF OURSELVES IN THE BROKEN, AND GIVE A SMILE …YES, EVEN JUST ABOVE THE MASK.