I had to get glasses.

This blog is not an “accept yourself” or “what I would tell younger me” write-up but an actual “simple-stupid” analysis.

Here’s the thing: I grew up wearing glasses. I was the awkward girl with braces, glasses, chubby with a lazy eye, headgear (I wore to sleep), and acne at one point. There are many ways God kept my prayer to keep my heart safe for my future husband. 😉

At some point after high school, I boycotted eyeglasses. I hated them. It was unfair to wear them when I could see, and others around me did not have to.

Flash forward to my current life, where I am past thirty, and things are starting to change. I’ve always favored my right eye, and that’s how I got away with my vision for so long. However, with some minor changes in my life outside of my vision, I needed to bite the bullet and get glasses, and I was starting to have slight perception issues, and my left eye was getting blurrier. Insert eye-roll here…

One of my Uncles is an optometrist (I KNOW!!!!!), so I texted him (with encouragement from my husband and my dad) asking if I could make an appointment because I have white coat syndrome and that I was pretty sure the last time I went to an eye doctor was with him in high school.

Flash forward to the eye exam:
“Better or worse?”
“Which one? 1 or 2? …3 or 4?”
“2”
“We’re on 3 or 4… keep up.” haha!

When he moved the lenses away, I thought, “AH! Bring them back!”

I needed glasses. While I could see good enough and survive without them, it was a new world with them! The difference in seeing clearly out of BOTH EYES was unreal! I have 20/20 in my right eye with slight astigmatism, while my left eye was a disaster… I mean, I needed a more significant prescription. At this point, I was excited to be getting glasses. Don’t get me wrong, I CAN SEE, but I could just see BETTER, and it would be better moving forward with our life plan.

I picked up my glasses yesterday, and when I tried them on looked around the store and went, “WOAH! I CAN SEE!” The lady smiled and simply said, “Better?”

I couldn’t believe the difference because without glasses I CAN SEE, but NOW I can see!

The point: The difference between living without God and living with Him is the ability to see clearly. We can get by without Him, and many people think they can survive without Him. Before knowing God, we can’t see how blind we are because it is all we know, and there is nothing to compare it to, but once we are saved and taste the goodness of God, the visibility is so sharp and colorful, and there’s no going back. We get a second life and become alive. His spirit lives within us.

“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.” – Isaiah 42:16

You know you’re best friends when you wear the same glasses. 🙂