Blindness.....

I once was blind, but now I can can see…

I seem to be stuck on hymns of late…

But I was talking to a friend who was

talking about a lady who was going

blind.  She needed glasses, but she

was afraid to go to the doctor, because

he/she might tell her, that she is losing

her sight.  I told my friend, that is crazy.

She just might need glasses and had

drove herself in to a life of hell, thinking

what may not be true.  My friend said

she is still working on her. That she

was going to just make the appt. and

just take her.

Then we talked about how it would be

to lose one’s sight.   How some people

seem to adjust and live good healthy

lives, just a little bit harder.  I asked

my friend.. what would she miss the

most, if she went blind.   Driving she

said. What about you, she asked?

I thought for a moment.. and then said..

my children, grandchildren, and great

grandchildren and my husband’s faces.

mostly their smiles.  Then maybe next

is scenery… like snow in the mountains,

the rivers and lakes.. flowers.. definitely

flowers.  I could smell them..but not to

see the colors… Guess next would

be colors… but at least if someone tells

me blue, like the ocean, or blue like navy

blue… I could relate… Where as a person

who had never seen.. ever.. how do you

explain a color they never have seen.

And then there are those of us who can see

yet are blind.  In their busy days, they don’t

see the sights along the roads, or the sky

beauty… or even people’s pain, in their

faces, or what is truth.. Like a husband

who asked where his socks are.. and you

tell him.. only to end up going to the

draw to show him.. or the milk on the middle

shelf..which you have to walk over and show

him….  They say that this a man disease. Lol

So what is it in life.. that you would miss, if

you woke one morning without your sight?

In your blindness, what would make you the

saddest? What would you miss?

I once was blind, but now I can see……