12 jars of homemade apple sauce all lined up. I made these with some friends this week who cranked out dozens of jars, I could only help out on the tail end due to the story below. These jars of sweet pink-hued sauce came with a tough price for me…
Two weeks ago I went apple picking, last week I went back for a few more. On this second trip I walked through a picker bush, that filled my clothes full of burrs. They left these almost translucent pickers on my skin and one of those ended up in my eye. I flushed my eye many times and did everything I could do to get it out. I thought it would come out on its own but after 5 days, intermittent pain and sleepless nights, I resorted to a trip to the eye doctor. After more than 30 minutes he found the culprit thorn lodged on the inside of my upper eyelid. It was scratching my eye and causing me a great deal of pain. I had no idea something so small could be such a huge irritant. I can’t explain the feeling of gratitude I felt toward my doctor who was so gentle in removing the thorn.
I had almost forgotten in that short amount of time what a normal eye had felt like. How could something almost invisible to ‘naked eye’ cause such pain? I could help but think about Matthew 7:3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? After this whole ordeal I shiver at the idea of a speck, not to mention a plank. I am thankful that God is so full of grace and gentle in removing those irritants. I remember saying to my doctor as he slowly drew near my face with a pair of blunt tweezers. ” I know you need to do this but I really don’t want you to…” In the end my fear of how steady his hand was, gave way to my fear of facing the future in this condition, and the health of my eye. I guess I’ll just put the question out there, is there something in your life that is obstructing your vision? That is painful to think about removing but is absolutely necessary in order to restore sight and return to a peaceful normal state? Perhaps its time to schedule an appointment with the great physician, so the healing can begin.
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