Vision
Vision is important to America. I had not thought about this fact until this morning. Everyone seems to have a pair of glasses or contacts. Lasik surgery is all the rage. My friend, now in the secret service, had to get the surgery to go forward in the application process. Apparently, you can't guard the president if you don't have perfect 20/20. This is a good thing.
I have always wondered about the blind man. Does he see much more than the seeing and more clearly? We know he misses out on a lot, but does he miss out on the truly important things? Does he not still hopefully know what it means to be loved and cared for? The clouds maybe lost, but he has the wind. He see's as much of the wind as the Lasik perfected person. On this, the blind and seeing stand on level ground.
Christ said, "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light..."
Vision is truly important. Sight is a beautiful gift in itself, but we must see the world in such a way, as to illuminate our very beings. We really do need good eye's. One's that know truth and see it in pretty much everything.
Our Lord goes on to say, "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
Bad eyes are a recipe for darkness within. When we stop seeing light in the world we stop shining ourselves. Our light turns to darkness and leaves us all alone. Light reveals the crowd, the community; darkness keeps you thinking you're on your own.
Annie Dillard in her novel, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek says
"If I seek the sense and skill of children, the information of a thousand books, the innocence of puppies, even the insights of my own city past, I do so only, solely, and entirely that I might look well at the creek."
We are implored to look well at not only the creek near our house, but the world and all its people, every last and lowly one. Our goings about and our questioning and learning are to do what glasses, contacts, and Lasik cannot. It seems it works both ways. Inside, we must shine to see well and we must see well to shine....on the inside and out. That old hymn with the Irish melody is stuck in my head. "Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart..." Yes, indeed, please do.
I have always wondered about the blind man. Does he see much more than the seeing and more clearly? We know he misses out on a lot, but does he miss out on the truly important things? Does he not still hopefully know what it means to be loved and cared for? The clouds maybe lost, but he has the wind. He see's as much of the wind as the Lasik perfected person. On this, the blind and seeing stand on level ground.
Christ said, "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light..."
Vision is truly important. Sight is a beautiful gift in itself, but we must see the world in such a way, as to illuminate our very beings. We really do need good eye's. One's that know truth and see it in pretty much everything.
Our Lord goes on to say, "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"
Bad eyes are a recipe for darkness within. When we stop seeing light in the world we stop shining ourselves. Our light turns to darkness and leaves us all alone. Light reveals the crowd, the community; darkness keeps you thinking you're on your own.
Annie Dillard in her novel, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek says
"If I seek the sense and skill of children, the information of a thousand books, the innocence of puppies, even the insights of my own city past, I do so only, solely, and entirely that I might look well at the creek."
We are implored to look well at not only the creek near our house, but the world and all its people, every last and lowly one. Our goings about and our questioning and learning are to do what glasses, contacts, and Lasik cannot. It seems it works both ways. Inside, we must shine to see well and we must see well to shine....on the inside and out. That old hymn with the Irish melody is stuck in my head. "Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart..." Yes, indeed, please do.
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