Eyes!

March 9, 2020 Uncategorized

There are several “joys” of having had only one cataract surgery: do the old glasses work (not really), can you pop out one lens (didn’t work), do you try a pair of $1.00 glasses (some help), or do you just try to see without any helping lens (depends on what you are doing, especially if it involves a computer screen and other written material). Hopefully after the second surgery, everything will come back into focus!

Lent is a time for focusing on the many facets of life: what we have to be thankful for, what we may need to repent of, how we can be more careful and thoughtful of others. Our Wednesday evening Lenten study of Toxic Charity is going to focus on and then refocus our thoughts about charity.

One of my favorite Psalms is Psalm 121(especially the King James Version) in which the psalmist uses his eyes to realize that our help comes from the Lord, that God is watching over us, and that he is always there with us.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,

from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the Lord,

which made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved:

he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is thy keeper:

the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day,

nor the moon by night.

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil:

he shall preserve thy soul.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in

from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Bill Wilds