Recently I had to do a thing… something I dreaded for years, hoped wouldn’t happen until I was at least 40, and cringed as it unfolded before my face…
I was told I need glasses.
Y’all!
My heart sank! My gut twisted up in knots! My palms got sweaty as the Eye Dr kept changing the little glass slides in front of my face and asking, “is this clearer? Or…” *slide, click* “this?”
The letters on the wall opposite me were NOT clear, and nothing was helping yet.
After a few rounds, things started to shape up and I relaxed into the seat.
“Your eyes aren’t really that bad, honestly.” I vaguely heard him say.
Not that bad?! Ha! I’m terrified!
My son and I picked out glasses, made our orders, and went home.
A week later I got the call from the Eye Dr’s office. The glasses were in.
UGH!
So, I drive to the office, on a dreary, dark, cloudy, rainy day.
We got our glasses picked up, the kids got theirs fitted to their faces, and then it was my turn.
I slowly pulled the black frames from the pocket of the soft, leather case… humor and dread filling me to the point I giggled and choked at the same time.
This was it. The moment I avoided for a few years, now. And how I avoided it for this long, I will say I am shocked now!
I put them up to my face… and my world shifted!
Like, no. It MOVED!
Everything changed!
Time slowed for a couple minutes while I adjusted to this new outlook in my world.
I looked around the room, toward the mirror (to make sure they weren’t crooked), and out the window to my car on the other side in the parking lot.
I could see beyond the window!
Clearly!
I could see beyond the window before, don’t get me wrong! But, seriously! This was actually 3D vision!
The tech’s voice brought me back to the room.
“Do they feel okay? They look like they fit great!”
I paused again.
“Oh! Uhm.. yeah.” I touched the sides of the frames again, no adjustment needed. “They’re… they’re actually great!”
She chuckled as she handed me the cases for the boys’ glasses since they already took off to the car.
“It’s different, needing them for the first time. But really, your eyes aren’t that bad at all! So, you are lucky!”
I laughed out loud at this point!
“If this isn’t bad… I’d hate to see what bad really is! This is HUGE! The difference is… weird!”
I thanked her and walked out the door to the car.
Here is where the fun would begin.
I was about to drive with these things on!
And drive, I did!
In the rain. On a gloomy, dark, dreary day.
And I could see beyond the windshield!!
Like, I had no idea I wasn’t seeing clearly what was beyond the windshield!
I thought my eyes were fine all this time!
The only thing that brought me to have my eyes examined was the weird thing they did while I was writing or journaling… making words scramble, jump off the page, and then slowly return to their actual location in my vision.
Ok… that’s pretty intense itself. Haha!
I had no idea my entire world would literally take on new detail and clarity before my very eyes!
Like tree bark! Did you know tree bark has detail???
Bruh…
This was hard to accept at first, I’ll be honest. I was so happy with myself being 36 and not needing glasses (when in reality I probably needed them since I was a teenager), and I had to adjust to the reality that my eyes aren’t perfect!
Sigh… Who knew?!
So, of course, this made me think about how imperfect we really are, and how our vision sometimes needs a little help with something to clear it up.
For some it is the things that are close up that we have trouble discerning, or seeing clearly, and for others it is more the things a bit farther away, but no less dangerous if overlooked or not seen.
Without the Word of God, the glasses He provided for our clarity of sight, we may find that things are harder to discern, harder to identify, and harder to get through as we stumble along, blurred vision, unclear and a little fuzzy.
It may not even be the harsh vision of someone nearly blind, but the smallest need for a tiny adjustment or assist. Either way, this world is a place where it all starts to look the same to our human eyes after a while.
The routines the same, the schedules the same, days are the same, nights are the same, and people are slowly becoming… all alike.
Don’t forget your glasses today. Your clarity. Your peace.
Without a vision the people perish, (Bible!) but the wrong visions, or the visions of false speakers and naysayers can kill a spirit just as quickly as blindness!
Take up your visions and take up your prayer life. Take up your bibles and take up your connections with elders and those who have gone before you on the same paths.
Take up your connection with the Most High. And SEE His good and perfect Will. Which is that none should perish, and ALL be together with Him forever.
I adore you all!
And now… I can see you better! *smiles*
