Seeing... or not

Recalibrate or re-engage? Is that the answer? Maybe don't start completely from the beginning again, nevertheless you know that things aren't quite right, yet. Naturally, you and I think that there must have been a fault from the outset. However, pondering has pushed me away from "natural." Some things require more than the natural. The "problem" we are dealing with is really not a "problem" at all. It's not a "scratch across the lens," rather the lens hasn't even been fully built yet. That’s the thing, you can't take pictures when the lens isn't done being built. Besides, we would never complain about a lens being built, because we all know that at one point it was necessary for the lens to simply be a bunch of pieces that seemed random and incomplete. Yet, as the construction continued it became a lens. Our sight is this way, and not just sight with our eyes, but sight in the way we perceive our lives. Our sight is not complete. Remember the story in Mark 8:22-26? It took Jesus two touches to fully heal the man of blindness. The apparently frivolous first touch left the man looking at walking trees (If you don’t know the story, go look it up, it’s only four verses). It is very possible that the seemingly superfluous touch is partly the point though. Perhaps you feel like you have only been touched once. Can you handle having to see things as trees? Can you handle partial sight? It is very easy and tempting to ask for your sight to be made full, but more effective to ask to learn the necessary lesson in being partially blind. Peter was partially blind. In the verses following the story of the blind man Peter confesses Jesus as the Christ, but immediately rebukes Jesus for saying that He would die. The reality of what it meant to be Christ must have passed over Peter’s head at a blinding speed (haha, get it?). Ironic, isn’t it that Jesus’ closest and most devout followers were still partially blind? Due time and they received their sight. So, don’t worry, so will you.