Why I Wear Glasses

For a little over a year, I have been wearing glasses.  They are square, black frames with a silver heart on each side.  My vision began to decline a few years prior.  I had trouble focusing on people and words.  I had constant headaches and could not get relief from man's medicine.  Last year, I finally stopped avoiding the inevitable and saught help.

The diagnosis was that one eye was doing the work of two.  When I put the glasses on, I was so happy that I could see again.  Everything was clear and bright.  I felt like a new person.  That same day I had to attend a musical at church.  I wish you could have seen the look on everyone's face.  They were so surprised to see me in glasses, but loved my new look.  Of course, it took me a while to get use to them.  My head hurt because the frames were tight.  I even thought the doctors messed up the formula and gave me the wrong lenses.  Eventually I accepted it and grew into my frames.  Now I don't leave home without them. 

I wear glasses for more than just physical sight.  My glasses are my faith.  I realized that without them I would be in total darkness.  I would not be able to disern good from evil.  Before, I felt like I was stumbling through life or barely getting by.  My glasses have helped me to improve as a person, wife, a mother, and a student.  I am able to focus on what matters and let go of what does not.  I am able to walk into the unknown and not fear it because God is with me.

I wear my glasses as a reminder that I can do all things through Jesus Christ.  My glasses help me understand that I cannot do this life alone.  They are my reminder that when I am weak, God is strong.  When I am strong, God is stronger. 

If you wear glasses, you know that every so often you have to get them tightened and rechecked to make sure they are working properly.  As Christians, God needs to check our faith to make sure we are working properly and growing spiritually.  Sometimes He has to give us a tune-up and repair what is broken.

My glasses are my reminder that God loves me.  He opened my eyes and filled my world with the knowledge of His greatness.  Oh what a great feeling it is to be able to physically and spiritually see all that God does and know who He is.  This is why I wear glasses.  For without them...I am nothing.