Be Thou My Vision

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The other day someone encouraged me on a project I was working on for the web. 

"I love a gal with vision!" she said.

Through the years, my vision has gone through a variety of adjustments. When I was twelve, the eye doctor placed a pair of glasses on my nose and suddenly the tile actually had a pattern in it rather than a wavy blur. My eyesight was greatly improved!

In the years that have followed, I've been through contact lenses and even laser surgery in a quest to improve my vision. These attempts have all been
successful in helping me read road signs at a greater distance than 2 feet or to peruse the label on a can without lengthening my arms. However, there are
some areas of my vision that eye doctors can never fix.

For example, my foresight is a bit blurry while my hindsight is always
sparkling clear. My life is full of farsighted dreams with short-sided goals. I have demonstrated great insight on things that scarcely matter, while important issues have been a neglected oversight.  Once an aged hippie in San
Francisco told me I was out of sight; with all that hair covering his eyes he was probably right!

Many times in my spiritual walk God has corrected my vision through the instrument of His Word.

 I peer dimly through a dark glass striving to see all He has in store for me. He says, "Walk by faith not by sight!" 2 Corinthians 5:7  (NKJV) 

I struggle to perceive how to walk by faith.

He reminds me to fix my eyes on Jesus, "the author and perfecter of our faith." Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV)

I try to see the way that is best for me.

 He assures me " I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye."  Psalm 32:8 (NKJV)

Today if you are feeling a bit blurry-eyed, seek the only true source for 20-20 vision-  the light of God's Word.  Together we can say as the Psalmist did "Be Thou My Vision!"

 Read the Words to this old hymn:    Be Thou My Vision