“The veil o’er the earth is beginning to burst” (William W. Phelps, “The Spirit Of God”). Our eyelids are less than a millimeter thick and yet that tiny membrane can prevent us from seeing the light or seeing anything at all. The veil that separates us from the knowledge of God is even thinner. We could tear through it like cobwebs with just the power of our belief. The veil is really nothing more than our spiritual eyelids, and we can open them anytime that we wish. To paraphrase the Savior, “he who has eyes to see, let him see.” Bursting the veil by opening our spiritual eyelids is like the difference between walking through the wilderness in a pitch black night and walking through the wilderness at night with infrared goggles. So many of our self-inflicted wounds could be avoided if only we would open our spiritual eyes so that we could actually see where we are going instead of stumbling around in the dark. And if we currently have our eyes clenched tight shut, because we feel unworthy or embarrassed or stubborn, then let us try to remember a time when our eyes were open. How much happier were we? How much more gracefully did we navigate life’s challenges? Veils are worn by brides waiting to meet their bridegrooms. Let us stop waiting and meet the Bridegroom and enter into a covenant with Him and take His name upon us so that we are no longer required to be kept in the dark by our veil. Veils are also worn at funerals. Sin leads to death, but the Atonement and repentance leads to rebirth and resurrection. Let us stop mourning the perfect life we might have had if only we hadn’t screwed up. Let us burst through our veil of morning and come to the Savior in Whom there is Life Eternal and He will restore tenfold all that we have thrown away or lost along the way. I hope that we will all set aside the things in our lives that are causing us to close our eyes and that we will burst through the veil and enter a world of light and love and forgiveness.
