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Cataracts and Cobwebs
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by Denise Nelson
esterday I had cataract surgery on my left
out light bulb in your bedroom or bathroom? That
eye. When I went to the eye doctor for
is what it was like for me. I could not believe how
my visit—never and I mean never—in my
adjusted I had become to seeing things through a
wildest imagination would I think I have cataracts. I know about cataracts. My mom and dad both had them removed after they retired. I am still youngish.
dull lens. Mother’s Day was the anniversary of our daughter’s death. It makes no sense to me. I cannot see any purpose or goodness in this event. My spiritual vision is just as dull as my physical vision is with cataracts. 1 Corinthians 13:12 says, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” It will be like the cataract removed from my eye. I will see the brightness and goodness of all of God’s plan. I will see the absolute love He has for me. I will see my daughter. In the waiting I will keep
I still have many years of working before retirement,
my spiritual lens cleaned with the truth of God’s word
but it seems I also have cataracts.
until the fullness is revealed. I will look forward, in
Why am I making such a big deal of this? Glad you asked. I got up this morning, took off my plastic eye patch and walked into my kitchen. When I turned on the light something wonderful happened!
excitement, to the day I see fully and completely. I cannot imagine how much better it will be. Oh, I will also clean the cobwebs in the corner of my kitchen. Now I can see those too.
It was as if I had been living with a veil over my eye that feeling you get when you replace the blown-
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About The Author
and now everything was bright and clear. You know Denise Nelson lives in Ringgold, Georgia, with her husband, son, father, and grandfather.
