Anyone out there?

You who are reading this might wonder why I chose the title “Here’s looking at you kid,” for my blog.  Many years ago I watched a movie called Casablanca.  It is a very old movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.  It is one of the greatest classical love stories of those times ever told.  But what really touched me was the way he looked into her eyes and said, “Here’s looking at you kid.”   It was not a story that could have a super happy ending.  Each of them must sacrifice what they wanted most in that situation of war and conflict. So many other lives must be considered.  And in one of the most painful scenes when he knew that he must trick her into leaving him he looks at her and says, “Here’s looking at you kid.” 

I often imagine that God my Father looks at me that way, His eyes loaded with love and compassion as I try each day to overcome the hurdles of my own personality that trip me up and cause me to fall.  It is that look that picks me up and puts the spring into my step again.  It is that look that helps me to overcome the difficulties or not to mind them at all.  It is that look that keeps the spring within me ever bubbling and gives me a zest for life and for love.  Each time I feel the look of God on me and I can hear Him saying with a smile on His face, “Well, here’s looking at you kid.” I know that I am on the right track and all’s well with my world.

So here’s looking at you kid, you who are reading this.  And May His love put the sparkle into your world.