August 17th, 2007 by admin

            By the time I got to his office Missy and I had been praying a lot, and I was starting to regain some of the vision. I thought we were seeing a miracle. After Dr. Skaggs checked me out he said that a blood vessel had popped on the inside of the eye, and the blood had filled the lens thus blocking my vision. That was a huge relief because I thought the worst had happened — blindness. As I would stand upright the blood would rest in the bottom part of the lens and I could see again. If I bent over the blood would fill the lens and I would lose vision. It took a month for the blood to absorb fully back into my body and my sight to return to the way it was before the blood vessel burst. Dr. Skaggs took some glaucoma pressure checks in my eyes and found that the right eye pressure was creeping back up. He felt that the blood vessel bursting probably had something to do with that.

            Over the next few weeks the pressure in the eye would not descend, and I restarted the eye drop regimen. I was pretty discouraged, and I began to question the Lord. Was I doing something to deserve this? What was I supposed to be learning through this? Actually, however, �how do I get out of this� was the real question. It is human tendency to try and avoid the trials in our lives instead of doing what the Bible says: Count it all joy when you face trials (James 1:1). This was not joy; in fact, I could not find joy anywhere in the room. The Bible is difficult to follow sometimes. I guess that is why following God is a journey in faith.