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What I Saw Today

Every day is a new day of discovery! God’s world, both physical and spiritual, is filled with wonder. Come explore God’s world with me as I see it for the first time.

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Bird Watching: What I Saw Today – by Karen Wingate

I’ve discovered birds!

yellow finches - photo by Karen Wingate
yellow finches – photo by Karen Wingate

Before the surgery that gave me Better Than Ever vision, I never understood bird watching. Why get so excited over something you can’t see? I didn’t realize other people could see birds just fine, thank you. After my surgery, the wonderful world of bird watching unfolded, and I’m moving quickly toward fanhood. I still can’t see a lot of detail but I can see motion, a flash of color, and, if I use my assistive technology spyglass, I can see in full detail a bird on the ground.

What have I found so wonderful about bird watching?

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The Reach For 2020: 3 Ways To Improve How You See God

Let’s aim for 20/20 in 2020.

20/20 in 20202

Why the deal about 20/20 vision in this particular year date? Unlike physical fitness or aerobic classes used to improve muscle tone and strengthen our core, we can’t change the vision we have.

  • Perhaps your eyes are normal. You don’t need glasses and your vision is fine.
  • Corrective lenses bring your eyesight up to the 20/20 level of visual acuity.
  • Or, like me, no amount of prescription will give you what the rest of the world calls normal eyesight. And outside miraculous surgery, that won’t happen in this lifetime.

Or can we?

As fits the nature of this blog, I’m looking beyond physical eyesight. I’m talking about engaging our brain and hearts to see what our eyes are already made to see. And I’m talking about how we see God.

Let’s aim for 20/20 spiritual sight in 2020.

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A Time To Speak: Cultivating the Courage To Encourage

A Time To Speak
” . . . a time to stay silent and a time to speak.” – Ecclesiastes 3:7

A time to stay silent and a time to speak. So says Solomon, the wisest man in the world (Ecclesiastes 3:7).

In a recent blog post, I told you about my experience in a hospital ICU waiting room where I learned to bring peace to a tense family conversation by staying silent and invisible. But I started my story by telling you why I was in that hospital waiting room in the first place. Preacher Creature (alias, my husband) had received a call that morning that Frank was in ICU.

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"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him."
- 2 Corinthians 2:14