Recently it was time for one of my least favourite things - an eye test. Well, actually, to be accurate I quite like the eye test bit, the bit I like less is all the stuff that follows. Choosing frames, and tints, and anti-reflective lens, and obviously - the bill.

But the main bit I dislike is the first few weeks when I’m wearing my new glasses and anxiously wondering…

Did they get the prescription correct? Why do my eyes feel like this after wearing my new glasses for a while? Is this normal? Why do my eye muscles feel strained? Are they making me feel tired? Do they look okay!?!

It probably takes me a month until I settle into my new glasses and feel totally happy with them.

This time around both my distance and reading prescription changed and so the difference between my distance glasses and reading glasses is so much more pronounced! #thankyouaging When I tried on my new reading glasses for the first time I was sat in the opticians, I looked up and around and suddenly everything around me was very blurry, I felt dizzy and discombobulated! Then I looked at the sheet of text before me and oh what a miracle, the words were crisp and clear! I tried on my new distance glasses, amazing, I could see new words where previously there had only been smudges!

Sometimes we need new lens to build a sense of meaning, to make sense of the world, to really see things how they really are. Our lives are full of choices as to how we view the world. Glass half full, glass half empty, etc. As people of faith, we’re challenged to see the world and our neighbours as God sees them and to respond lovingly. I wonder what difference would it make to our lives and how we experience the world if we put on our ‘God’s-eye-view’ lens and tried to see people and the world as God sees them? Perhaps it might bring some clarity. Amen.

Blessings

Tim