Looking for Love in all the RIGHT Places

"Why are you outside looking on the ground," asked Nasruddin the Mullah.

"Oh," said the man, "I have lost the key to my house."

"Let me help you,"  said Nasruddin, "where do you think you dropped it?"

"In the house," replied the man.

"So why are you out here looking for it," asked the Mullah.

"Because there is more light out here," said the man.


There's more wisdom to this story than just looking in the wrong place.  The point is that our eyes become so blind to the Truth, which we have misplaced along the way of life, that we don't know where the true light of Truth is.  Our eyes are not able to see the real Light.

Remember the CSLewis book in the Narnia series, The Last Battle?  The eyes of the dwarfs live in darkness and think it is daytime because they are so conditioned that they say they see, but are blind.  We do not need to look very far, do we, to remember Jesus confronting the Pharisees and saying, "there are none so blind as those who say they see!" 

The true wisdom is of "light uncreated," that wonderful Dillard phrase.  She might not have meant it this way, but love is light uncreated--in the best and worst of times, love lights the way.  In the midst of deep darkness, we follow the light and know it because it simply is not something (in my view) which we manufacture, but which God shares through us.