FOCUS

Why is it when we go blind in our thinking we find it so hard to admit it? Pride probably kills our capacity for confession.

I use to dabble in photography at one time. Focus was very important since nobody enjoyed looking at a fuzzy photograph.

But the thing is that while looking through the viewer, things often looked in focus. Then when I would get the pictures developed I would notice little things about the focus being blurry that I didn't notice earlier.

If we were perfect in thought and sight, perhaps we would always see the truth so clearly. However, we are not that perfect in any of our visions, so we sometimes make mistakes.

When we do, the test comes as to how we respond to our misunderstandings. That is the real focus of our soul's eyes.

It is amazing the people I know who never have the ability to admit they did anything wrong. It is always somebody else's fault.

That is rather like the person you work with who sternly comments how he or she never makes mistakes. They are basically shutting the door of confession and locking it so they don't have to deal with change or admitting to flaws.

None of that changes reality. None of it really improves life. All it does is force a person to dwell in denial and cling to the absurd as truth.

God will prod us so often into the light so we can see what is really in focus. The gaze can be painful at times. Too painful for some.

Which is why if one is lead into a valley of challenge and the landscape seems to hostile some will simply pretend it doesn't exists. It never improves the situation, just gives them an excuse to avoid facing what they see, but don't want to see.

Eyes can be dangerous if our brain can't accept what they see. For some the gaze only harms, it never heals as intended.

Perhaps one can't always improve one's insight. But one can try to let God focus our vision till it sees what he sees.

More than one person has been given a pair of God's spectacles. And sometimes they actually use them.

The hard part is not getting to discouraged when others who threw away their pair of specs, squints and says that monster you see isn't really there. Being blind and being wrong sometimes are companions in life.