Smudges

 You get into your car and you are in the shadows or the garage.  Your windshield looks clean enough.  You pull out into the sun and the light shows that your windshield has smudges that will interfere with a safe vision as you drive.  Do you stop the car, get out and clean the windshield?  This would be the wise decision.  So it is with our shortcomings and character defects that show up in the light of a good examination of conscience, or a 4th and 5th step in a recovery program.  When we allow ourselves to draw closer to God, The Power, The Light, we will see the need for some cleaning up of our faults and bad habits.  The shadows are bad places to be if we want to see clearly the correct path to true happiness.  The shadows are the living in ignorance or denial of the interior mess that is surely the way to a life of wreckage.