“In you is the source of life, in your light we see the light” (Ps 36:10).
Our Father wants to open our eyes so that we may see. As related in the Gospel, our Lord restores sight to the blind (Mk 10:46-52). But an even greater gift of His love is to grant us the light of faith, to open our spiritual eyes and enable us to see with the eyes of God. What a difference from spiritual blindness, which prevents people from finding the way to God! And spiritual blindness is even stronger when people live in sin. May the Lord snatch them from the power of darkness (Col 1:13) and lead them to His marvelous light (1Pet 2:9)!
This “opening of our eyes” deepens to the extent that we allow the light of faith to penetrate us and we follow it. Then the light of the Lord begins to pierce more and more the shadows of our soul and purifies us, so that we learn to understand the love of our Heavenly Father. This is what the mystics describe as the “process of illumination”.
It is in the light of the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father and the Son, that we see the light of God. When His gifts of understanding and wisdom begin to work in us, our soul rejoices because it can understand its Creator and Redeemer better and better, and progressively recognize its God as He truly is, becoming more capable of responding to His love.
Our soul will address its Father with the deepest gratitude and will never cease to praise Him, joyfully acclaiming, “in you is the source of life, in your light we see the light”.