I’m no optometrist, but they say 20/20 vision is perfect, so that’s my wish for you this year. I wonder if 20/21 vision will be even better. (By the way, did you know that Cyclops had 20 vision? That’s a joke my cousin sent me.) The definition for 20/20 vision is seeing the same line of letters at twenty feet that people with normal vision do. Early this new year, let’s work to see clearly and find something to be thankful for every single day.
Perspective improves our vision. I knew a pastor upset when he missed his year 2000 flight from Madrid to the US—until that transatlantic plane crashed into the ocean with all lives lost.
Author friend, Beth K. Vogt, recently wrote a great post on Perspective Changing Everything that kicked off my own thinking. I’ve worn glasses since age six. The day they put glasses on me, I walked down the sidewalk stumbling because the concrete was much closer than it had ever appeared.
Sometimes we do that in life. If we only focus on long-range goals, we may stumble when concrete realities need attention because they are closer at hand than we realized.
If we visited the year 20/20 optometrist, what would your eye prescription be? Near-sighted? Far-sighted? Dreaded (but treatable) cataracts? Thankfully, most conditions can be corrected for much better sight than our forefathers enjoyed. Family, friends, co-workers, most of all, our Lord, offer helpful optical services usually without major corrective surgery. We need to see clearly to gain the objectives this year holds. I wish you clear long-range vision and also the close-up detail needed to make it your best year yet.
What do you most want to see realized this year?
Comment on if corrective lenses or a changed focus in order?
Or will you just occasionally wipe your glasses clean and keep on going?
Make it a great year!
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