I got new glasses!!
Okay. Not the right picture. She's cuter.
HERE's my new glasses...
Not really. Ha. These are awesome! But they aren't mine. I don't have a picture of mine. My glasses are cute though!
I love new glasses.
I love to see.
Every time I get new glasses, I think about when I first got glasses.
I was in 2nd grade. I read more books than anyone in the second grade that year. I played machine pitch baseball, and hit the ball every time in the game, but not one time during practice. I had glasses in Kindergarden that I never wore. I didn't act like I was struggling.
I didn't even know I couldn't see.
I didn't know what it was like to see clearly. I had been "blind" my entire life.
The nurse's little eye test sent me to the eye doctor.
Dr. Sticksel saved my sight. I was nearly blind in one eye when I finally got glasses.
My mother still feels like she failed somehow, but there was no way she could know how bad things were!
I can remember that first pair of glasses that were the correct prescription. I can remember the complete awe I felt. I was seeing the world for the first time.
I told my dad I didn't know there were leaves on the trees.
I told my parents hitting the ball was easy when you just watch it. Up until that point I had timed my swing for after I heard the machine throw it out. I didn't even KNOW you could watch the ball.
I never took my new glasses off.
I slept in them.
Bathed in them.
I STILL wish I could swim in them.
THAT is what God's grace is for us!
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
Before becoming a follower of Christ, we are blind. God grants us sight! God allows us to see the leaves on the trees for what they really are! His grand creation!
God allows us to see the peace God holds for us. The joy!
Every day we should be grateful for the sight God grants us. Not just with our eyes! He grants us sight with our hearts and minds.
We can see the future God has guaranteed us through the death of His Son, Jesus.
We don't deserve to see. We deserve the death our sin has earned us.
Let us PRAISE THE LORD for saving us.
