I can see clearly now...that I have glasses
Wow. I am really dumbfounded here. Yesterday, after a month of putting it off, I went to a glasses store and got a pair prescribed for me. I noticed this summer while working on a landscape that things in the distance didn't get any clearer when I squinted, which is what normally happens. Also, road trips became increasingly frustrating because D would ask me, the faithful copilot, what street was coming up and I couldn't read it. And you know that seeing a street name only 10 feet away doesn't help when you need to turn onto it.
So eventually, the eye doctor took a look, and said I just need a small prescription for driving, movies, and anything else far away (church especially--I can't read the words on the screen unless they're 5 feet tall and contrasty). And yesterday I picked out some very cute rectangular red frames with a pumpkin-colored stripe along the sides, and rushed back to pick them up just as the store was closing.
I put them on, expecting to feel that I had wasted a whole lot of dough on a minimal improvement--I had never worn glasses, except trying on other peoples' and getting dizzy. I looked up to the sign in the back of the store, and there it was in crisp detail! Amazing. Everything seemed so much more vivid, and--well, focused. Duh.
All the way home I looked over the top of the glasses, and then through them, at signs and buildings and everything, and it was just amazing. Without them, everything has a small border of fuzz, like when you haven't slept well the night before and your eye goobers are particularly potent. With them, it's really like magic, like all is right with the world. Or if it isn't, it at least looks clear.
Metaphors abound, and I am sure people have used this very experience in sermon illustrations. "Amazing Grace" comes to mind as well, though maybe not as extreme as blindness. "I was nearsighted, but now I see" doesn't have quite the ring to it. I am just happy that things can be this easily remedied. I do love technology sometimes.
So eventually, the eye doctor took a look, and said I just need a small prescription for driving, movies, and anything else far away (church especially--I can't read the words on the screen unless they're 5 feet tall and contrasty). And yesterday I picked out some very cute rectangular red frames with a pumpkin-colored stripe along the sides, and rushed back to pick them up just as the store was closing.
I put them on, expecting to feel that I had wasted a whole lot of dough on a minimal improvement--I had never worn glasses, except trying on other peoples' and getting dizzy. I looked up to the sign in the back of the store, and there it was in crisp detail! Amazing. Everything seemed so much more vivid, and--well, focused. Duh.
All the way home I looked over the top of the glasses, and then through them, at signs and buildings and everything, and it was just amazing. Without them, everything has a small border of fuzz, like when you haven't slept well the night before and your eye goobers are particularly potent. With them, it's really like magic, like all is right with the world. Or if it isn't, it at least looks clear.
Metaphors abound, and I am sure people have used this very experience in sermon illustrations. "Amazing Grace" comes to mind as well, though maybe not as extreme as blindness. "I was nearsighted, but now I see" doesn't have quite the ring to it. I am just happy that things can be this easily remedied. I do love technology sometimes.
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