I returned to my first grade classroom to find a small pink, teddy-bear printed case on my desk. My heart pounded with excitement, my cheeks flushed with embarrassment. Sealing my ownership to this object, my mother's handwriting in black sharpie fashioned - KATELIN F.
In addition to seeing half way across the state, these rosy colored glasses provided me with a vision of a world of wonder, imagination, and enchantment. It would be 17 years before the 6 year old would take off her rosy colored glasses and live in the Lasik world.
How long are we willing to wait before we choose to see clearly?
"The truth is not afraid of your questions, the question is - are you afraid of the truth?"
We spend our lives with these enormous glasses on - conforming truth to fit what we feel our needs and desires are. It is only fitting that with our changing needs, desires, experiences - our redefined truth changes as well. It is the vicious cycle of worsening vision and the need for thicker lenses, making it even more difficult to see/accept the actual truth.
When will we gain the courage and choose to free ourselves of these glasses, sharpen our vision by conforming our life to the truth, literally change the shape of your cornea and you will see better than you have ever seen before.
There is nothing like 20/15 vision.
In addition to seeing half way across the state, these rosy colored glasses provided me with a vision of a world of wonder, imagination, and enchantment. It would be 17 years before the 6 year old would take off her rosy colored glasses and live in the Lasik world.
How long are we willing to wait before we choose to see clearly?
"The truth is not afraid of your questions, the question is - are you afraid of the truth?"
We spend our lives with these enormous glasses on - conforming truth to fit what we feel our needs and desires are. It is only fitting that with our changing needs, desires, experiences - our redefined truth changes as well. It is the vicious cycle of worsening vision and the need for thicker lenses, making it even more difficult to see/accept the actual truth.
When will we gain the courage and choose to free ourselves of these glasses, sharpen our vision by conforming our life to the truth, literally change the shape of your cornea and you will see better than you have ever seen before.
There is nothing like 20/15 vision.
5 comments:
choosing to NOT believe in something does not stop it from existing, or being true.
Conformity is a nasty word that people throw at each other as a sign that they are interesting and you the "conformer" are not. The funny thing is, who is actually doing the conforming??? No one wants to conform in this world and yet we see people doing it everyday...without even fighting it. Unfortunately, because people are doing it unconsciously they typically aren't conforming to a noble way of life.
first of all: those glasses were pretty fabulous1
secondly, i think that there is an absolute truth. sometimes we do keep getting thicker glasses to conform or change OUR ideas of truth. that is dangerous.
although "choosing to NOT believe in something doesn't stop it from existing," how many people will miss out on truth by making such a choice?
my question is how much are we who do choose the truth willing to be a witness to that truth? in your analogy, will we accept the challenge to pay for/go through the lasik procedure to see clearly and encourage others to see clearly?
A response on behalf of the skeptic:
Granted that there is an absolute truth, how are we to know when we have arrived at that truth? Is it really possible to take off the glasses? Or must we each of us always see through world through filters, which both color and distort the clarity of our vision. If we see the world through a filter (education, upbringing, individual experiences), how can we process what we see to determine what is truth and what is merely perception?
Perhaps the simple awareness that we must correct for images passed through a filter is enough to start us in the right direction.
It is an interesting problem. Perhaps I am being too analytical. Perhaps the sufficient truth is that God is. Perhaps clarity is found when we place our faith in His grace, mercy, and love. And perhaps living His love is the only way to impart the truth we have found to others.
Of course the antithesis here is that there is another pair of glasses that could be used as a path to the truth.
In a secular sense, we live in a nation of want and desire for services and material goods. We are bombarded by our society with one pair of glasses that expand and focus those desires, your vicious cycle.
However even in our society, the second pair, the pair many try to put on to see the truth do not have to be exclusively coupled with the first pair of glasses. In fact they can serve as your path. They can improve sight through improvements in one's works, friendships, and peacefully centered mind and heart.
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