Day 31 - eyesight

It's really odd how sometimes the same thing seems to crop up over and over again within a short space of time, such that it becomes really noticeable.   As though God is trying to get your attention through repetition.   One such thing for me of late has been sight.  Vision.  Or lack of vision.

It started  a while back when my Mum started to suffer from macular degeneration ( a condition of deterioration of the eye).  She finds it difficult to look at anything with straight lines in it because the lines start to waver about and make her feel a bit dizzy and odd.  And then my friend Gladys seemed to lose most of her eyesight almost overnight - which was a bit concerning although the hospital say it is just down to old age.  Then at the weekend a good friend of mine told me that she has just been diagnosed with cataracts in both eyes.   Added to which I have started to have to hold the small print at arms length in order to see it. 😎

It all seems to be about eyes at the moment.

I suppose it would be easy to go down the road of ' without vision the people perish'  or  something about focusing on the Lord.  But Im not sure that that's the emphasis for today.   I think perhaps the Lord is saying something about losing sight.

I wonder what Ive lost sight of recently.

The problem with losing your sight in the physical is that so often its a gradual process.  You hold the menu just that bit further away, you squint a bit, you dont really realise that you arent seeing everything in full technicolour any more..... until eventually you miss something important ( or your arms arent long enough !) and you work out that you have to do something about it.
Perhaps its like that in the spiritual as well.   The things which we once had in our sights as ambitions or dreams or ' calling' or vocation have become just that bit dimmer.  Slightly out of focus.  Or perhaps we have started to hold them at arm's length.

I know that many years ago God spoke to me about providing accommodation for people in need.  And for years before I got married I worked towards that goal - first qualifying as a social worker, then buying and renovating a house and finally having 16 year old Cara and her six month old baby Katelin to live with me.   But then I got married, moved to Ireland and had three babies.  The plan got put on hold - and that was fine, I dont think God had a problem with that.  But in the intervening years I think I might have lost sight of what God said at the start.  It's probably time to look at it again in some way or other and see if I can get back on track with the vision.

Just as we can always find some excuse for not going to the optician for that eye test, we can always put off a spiritual health check.  But it is good to go back to what God said at the start of our journey and just make sure we are still headed in the right direction.  There is no point in going off at tangents.  He might let us do that for a time but if He has called us to do something then that something is what we had better get on with.  Whether it is being an encourager,  running a business, preaching the gospel,  caring, giving, leading, administrating, helping, praying, teaching, going to a certain place, working in a certain field or writing poetry...... whatever it is, in order to be the you God wants you to be, you need to be doing that thing.

Ask the Lord if you have lost sight of any of His purposes for your life today
Then find your glasses and get on with the business of being the most fabulous you you can be 😊