“My existence remains hidden from me until You, O God, look at me, and my darkness becomes as clear as noon” (St. Augustine).
The loving gaze of our Father is always on us. It is the gaze of His inexhaustible love that moved Him to create us, to redeem us and to sanctify us. When we welcome this gaze, what St Augustine describes happens: the light of the Father penetrates our darkness and everything becomes clear. The shadows must give way when the light penetrates us.
In the Message to Mother Eugenia, the Father addresses those who still live in darkness and assures them: “I will be close to you, because I never stop calling you, inviting you to desire to receive the benefits I bring you, so that you may see the light and be healed of sin”.
Since this invitation of the Father is always there, it is important that we take advantage of it in our journey of following the Lord. Whenever a shadow hangs over our soul or we are confused in one way or another, we are invited to take refuge in the Father’s gaze upon us and then clarity will return. If we become aware and are convinced by faith that this gaze of the Lord rests upon us uninterruptedly, then even through the shadows that try to obscure it, our soul will be touched by the light of God and everything in it will be radiant again.
We do not always know where the shadows come from; sometimes we only perceive them. But what we can always be sure of is that our Father wants to drive them away so that our soul can walk in His peace, illuminated by the light that streams to us from His Heart.