Vision Problems

Night driving had become visually difficult for me as headlights of on-coming traffic would "glare" and I would have to focus on the white line on the side of the road in order to drive safely. This problem didn't happen all at once and it gradually worsened without me really knowing it.

I had to begin taking Jesse 10 miles out of town to his bus stop early on school day mornings so that he would only ride the bus for half an hour as opposed to an hour and a half. At the beginning of the school year, it was fine as the sun was shining. As winter approached, the sun was not up during our early morning trek. Once again, I had to deal with on-coming headlights glaring. I began to wear those yellow shaded glasses that are polarized. That helped. The road trip was a familiar one so I never focused on road signs as I knew where to turn off for our stop.

During a recent eye exam, I was explaining this to the eye doctor. He said, "you need glasses for night driving," and smiled. WHAT? The yellow glasses worked fine...or so I thought. I picked up my new glasses and decided to try them out that night. On-coming headlights no longer bothered my vision. I decided to see if I could read road signs easier. I COULD! Yellow glasses did not help me read the signs but now that my sight was corrected for night vision, I could see. I also noticed that I could see more clearly when I sitting at the computer during the early morning (dark) hours.

Isn't it amazing how much more clearly we can see things with corrected vision? Here I had been driving along and coping with poor vision..adjusting to the "bad" changes (astigmatism) in my eyes. It made me think of the little things that creep into our lives that we just slowly "adjust" to. Things that are not proper for Christian living. I could give numerous examples of slowly adjusting to things that aren't pleasing to God and should not be part of the life of a Christian. Many of us allow ourselves to become "softened" to jokes, shows, gossip, slander, impure thoughts, etc. until they are part of every day life. When confronted with the Word of God and reminded that living according to the teachings of Scripture, suddenly our spiritual vision is clear. Our spiritual "eyes" realize that the correction WAS necessary and that we now can see clearly as Jesus would want us to about certain issues. Changes were made and need to continue as we make sure our spiritual "eyesight" is always checked and "seeing" things as our Savior, Jesus Christ.