Poor eye sight

I am blessed with great eye sight. I have never had to wear glasses to correct my vision. But a few years ago, I did go through a period where I had some night vision problems, an eye doctor did give me some glasses and the problems went away. Now days, I don't have to wear them at all.

Reading that makes me wish I could say the same thing about myself spiritually. However, I have horrible vision spiritually. I cannot, it seems, under any circumstance, see past the end of my nose. Things in the here and now are so stressful to me that too many times I make them more than they really are. Fortunatley, I serve a gracious and mericful God who is willing to forgive me for not wearing the glass He gave me. Unfortunately, I get reminders, most of them not very gentle, that I must make an effort to put these glasses on every single day.

Throughout the year, our minister has mentioned this idea numerous time in his sermons and on his blog.

A week or so ago, I received a reminder from a friend when she admitted that she too has this exact same struggle.

Yesterday, the not so gentle reminder came when I heard about a minister at Golf Course Road Church of Christ in Midland, Texas. One of his four children was killed in a car wreck while one of his daughter was seriously injured.

My prayer, today, is that the annoying, stupid, little things that bother that my kids do will not interfere with my eternal vision and what really matters.