August 12th, 2007 by admin

It was April 20^th 2003, Easter Sunday. My wife Missy and I went to church that morning not knowing that this day would change our lives forever. We had a good service and enjoyed Christian fellowship afterwards. Then it happened. While shaking hands with some of the men after the service in the parking lot, I realized that I could no longer see out of a portion of my right eye. I did not know what was happening. I had felt fine and nothing apparently had caused this, but something was definitely wrong. I went to the doctor the next day and found out that the pressure in my right eye had risen to 55, which is dangerously high, and I had gone blind in the lower half of the eye. I was diagnosed with glaucoma at the age of 36. The heartbreaking news was that the doctors said that I would never regain the lost sight. I wasn�t really sure how to take this — after all I am a Christian, and we are supposed to be protected from these kinds of things. In fact, I had just been hired by a church as one of their associate pastors, which was something I had wanted for a long time.

What had happened? The battle in the mind began, and the thoughts concerning how this could have happened flooded in. Was God trying to teach me something? Or maybe I was reaping something? How did the devil do this if we are in Christ? And — well� you get the point.