We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! (1 Cor. 13:12 MSG)

In the last two years, it had become more and more difficult to wear my contact lenses, until finally I couldn’t wear them at all. I had purchased cheap glasses to wear at night, but I ended up wearing them all the time. Because my eyesight is how I make my living as an editor, I decided to invest in a nice pair of glasses with Neurolens. (This blog post isn’t a commercial for Neurolens, but I do want to mention how the lenses are designed to help realign your eyes, and they work well for people like me who are in front of a computer screen all day.)

A recent trip to the optometrist came with a surprise—I needed reading glasses. Why this came as a surprise, I don’t know. For several months prior, when I worked on editing projects, I would increase the size of the document on my screen so that I could catch all those pesky punctuation marks that were in the wrong place. The increase was gradual—first 110 percent, then 120, then 140. In fact, the funny thing is, things became blurry so gradually that it didn’t even register with me that it was happening. Continue reading “Looking through New Lenses” →