Lost Vision

Pain is what I feel when I close my eyes. Light is what I do not see when they are open. I feel as though my vision has been taken from me as some sort of cruel joke as though to get it back in a moment or two. I rub my eyes hoping that they need to adjust to what is going on. Unsuccessful, I slide out of bed, knowing how to navigate around as I have done for years with my eyes open. Familiar places should be easy to navigate in the dark right? Something is different about this though. Its as if a breeze has blown in an unfamiliar scent to throw you off. Everything is not what it used to be. I run into walls where open doors once existed. I start to panic thinking that I have been moved in the night.

I feel a prick in my foot as I step on something sharp. I bend down to feel what it is with open eyes but yet still no vision. My thumb feels the sharp point of a tack, I can't be dreaming as I am feeling this pain as though I have just been stung. I go to get up and smack my head on a table, this was not here before. Why are things changing, why is it that when my vision is gone, things are not there, and the people around me are gone. I sit back down on the floor and start to think, but I hear, I can still hear. I hear shuffling of feet on the floor. I dare not stand in fear of getting cracked in the head again.

I run my hands across the floor in the dark, wanting to see but yet my hands come across a pair of bare feet. I run my hands over them and feel a hole in the tops of them. I hear a voice whisper to me, arise my child as I feel a hand take mine. Stunned, I am unable to speak. I feel pressure on my eyes and the voice whisper "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" Open your eyes my child and see what lays in front of you, see what you have and should be thankful for.