Before you continue to read you may want to know that I have never blogged before. You may also want to know that I am very fond of words and lots of them.
I have been told that is my vision. it means that at 20 feet I see what a normal person sees at 400 feet. I suppose I believe the doctor. Part of me is not really sure how possible that is, but I do understand I have horrible eye-sight. I am forced to be dependent on glasses/contacts or welcome a headache with open arms. which normally doesn’t bother me. I did say normally, meaning it has bothered me recently. it really is a funny story...last night my roommate was in my room and said “what’s that?” in a gasping/worried kind of way. me without my glasses sees a brown roach shaped object on my pillow. naturally I jump and it falls...so I jump again and then it changes...it wasn’t a roach...a stinkin hair tie. she laughed...I did too, but then I was embarrassed. I really was scared. you know the way you feel when you think the police lights and siren flick on behind you? call me strange but I do not like roaches. I started thinking if I could just see this wouldn’t have happened.
I was hunting for the analogy right when the burn of “hurt feelings” stung my pride. I can’t see, must wear glasses, simple get over it kathryn. but it got me thinking what do I really want to see? job 19:27 I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
right now I am looking forward to spending 8 weeks in Khon Kaen, Thailand with an interdenominational ministry called Campus Outreach. we (team of 16 American college students and 2 staff members) will be partnering with Campus Outreach Thailand on the campus of Khon Kaen University- to build relationships with the Thai students and have the privilege of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
what I know about Thailand reminds me a lot of my blurry vision. I can only make out shapes and read things about the country and people. I really have no idea what it will be like. Over 9,000 miles away from everything I know. away from the American lens my heart is clinging to. The quest for eyes with world vision has begun. The cost of the trip is $6,000...my eyes can fill up with doubt quickly if focusing on that number too long. ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us
“If I could just see this wouldn’t have happened,” If I had 20/20 vision I would have never come to this moment, falling more in love with the one who gives sight to the blind.
I ask you to come on this journey with me, through prayer in reaching the nations with the Gospel of Christ. Would you join the team as we pray ::: For His gospel to go forth from us in actions and words. That He would work and move in the souls of the students and many would come to know Him (Mark 1:17-18; Ephesians 6:19; Matthew 9:35-38)
-learning how to love you,
kathryn
