Day 334 --- Once I Was Blind, But Now I See!

One of our favorite songs is Amazing Grace.  There is a line in that hymn where it says, that he was once blind but now he sees.  If you have seen the movie, you will understand much more than just those words.  As I heard that this morning, I realized that there is such wisdom in that statement.

We CAN all see, if we look.  One movie we saw hundreds of years ago has this statement in it, about these words, since I always quote everything wrong, "90% of the people of this world go around blind, where the other 10% are walking around in total amazement because of what they see."  I have also heard one of the brethren say that there are miracles all about us, but seldom do we see them, recognize them as miracles.

As I consider our dream of a mission, if I could only constantly see the miracles that surround me constantly, nothing would adjust my focus from my Savior.  I wouldn't let comments by loved ones stop my focus, I wouldn't let $90 tickets get in the way.  I wouldn't let tooth aches stop my vision of seeing miracles.  Nothing would get in the way and I would be one of those 10% that always sees visions. 

Hyrum Smith used to go around giving firesides preaching that everything depends upon the glasses we look through.  If we look through glasses that are adjusted with the prescription of seeing miracles, then we will see miracles.  If our glasses do not see miracles, in fact filter out the miracles, then we will not see them.

Recently I purchase a cheap pair of glassed and there were all kinds of promises of filters within the glass to filter out the unwanted sun rays.  I would suggest that we all need to check the glasses we use every day and see if they are filtering out the miracles, the beauty, the witnesses of Father's love, of charity surrounding us, and only letting in the mundane, the influences of the adversary.  I am sad to say often that is all I see, ignoring the beauties, the Eternal Perspective that shows me witnesses of Father's love each day.  Too often I am blind, oh that I can say as the song, once I was blind, but now I can see.