"A Single Eye to God's Purpose"

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"'If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.' The eye
of the soul is the will. if your will is to do the will of God, to serve Him
with your life, to serve Him by helping others, then truly shall your
whole body be full of light. The important thing is to strive to attune
your will to the will of God, a single eye to God's purpose, desiring
nothing less than that His purposes be fulfilled. Try to seek in all
things the advance of His kingdom, seek the spiritual values of honesty
and purity, unselfishness and love, and earnestly desire spiritual
growth. Then your life will emerge from the darkness of futility into
the light of victory."

From the Daily Recovery Readings, this meditation has come down from the writings of the Oxford Group, with which the roots of Alcoholics Anonymous are deeply entangled. The four absolutes of the Oxford Group were "Absolute Honesty, Absolute Purity, Absolute Unsefishness, Absolute Love," I understand that they are engraved on the tombstone of Dr. Bob Smith, one of AA's founders, in Akron, Ohio.