Livin' Small

Please read till the end to see why I wanted my vision restored to normal. I still have much to say about my faith as a Christian. There is so much to learn. As I get older, I find the questions I have have increased exponentially. The Gospel is simple in the transition from Old Testament to New Testament times. However, I find that a lot was happening that required the death, burial, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. There is still warfare going on. It will continue till the return of our Lord.

In the meantime, I apologize for the inconsistency in my writing. My vision is failing, and I need to get it corrected. I feel it has a spiritual facet in nature that also needs some adjustment in my spiritual vision. I want to get back to studying the books in the Ethiopian Bible.

Today I felt I should write yet another post. But I do feel the need to explain something my readers don’t know. I had cataract surgery about three years ago, coming up this December. At first it was a refreshing experience. For almost a year, I was without corrective lenses. Before the surgery, my vision was not far from legally blind by standards. Not only did the surgery fix the dimming of cataracts, but it also restored my vision to 20/20 with corrective lenses inserted inside my eye, replacing the ones I was born with.

About a year later, my left eye started crossing. I drive a school bus and in the early morning it was becoming difficult to focus on the road. After a visit to the optometrist, I found out my vision was deteriorating. I was fitted with new contact lenses. That fixed the problem for about a year, but there has been a steady decline in the vision of my left eye. It is crossing as I type this post. About three weeks ago, I had my eyes checked, and new lenses were prescribed, but the left one is still insufficient. I will go back again this Wednesday to determine where to go at this point.

Friend, my eyesight is important to writing and driving. Being unable to see is discouraging. Yesterday, it dawned on me why I started having failing grades when I was in elementary school. After the fourth grade, my vision started failing, and when I wanted to read, I could not get past about fifteen minutes without a terrible headache from eye strain. It took my teachers telling my parents for the next two to three years to get me to a doctor. In the meantime, I floundered through the next few grades. I barely passed.

Between the sixth and seventh grades, my parents finally conceded to my teacher’s requests and took me to an optometrist. Dr. David was my doctor. He said I was the most farsighted person he had ever encountered. So the next step was glasses. The day I put them on it was like a new day for me. I could finally see again.

Then came another problem. I had ingrained in myself a lack of desire to study or read. Unwinding that entanglement from me took almost as many years as it did to get back to decent study habits. It was so bad that I was a Sophomore for two years. During the summer after that second year, I woke up. I went to summer school to catch up. I passed. In doing so, I skipped my Junior year of school and joined my classmates as a Senior. That year I ended with an overall B+. I went on from there to Chicago Technical College, where I studied Architectural Drafting. I was acing that course, but got cut short by the military draft during the Vietnam War. During Army Basic Training. We were trained to fire weapons in the field out to 500 yards downrange. I qualified as an Expert Rifleman with the M-16 automatic rifle. I suppose that sealed the deal on my vision. I was hitting those targets farthest away.

My vision remained stable over the next few years, with only minor changes. Overall, those small changes added up over time. In the late 1980’s the opportunity came along to be fitted with soft contact lenses. Before the contacts, I found my depth perception was not what it should be. With contacts, I got a new lease. I regained everything I’d lost over time.

I’ve worn contacts since about 1987. The exception was the few months after the cataract surgery. Contact lenses are the best option I have now. I just need a resolution for my left eye. I want so much to get back to reading more in-depth material.

I want to get back into studying the Book of Enoch. Really, what I want most is to get an Ethiopian Bible, which contains 88 books instead of the 66 books I’ve used for decades. An Ethiopian Bible, which contains 88 books instead of the 66. I want to get back into studying the Book of Enoch. Really, what I want most is an Ethiopian Bible, which contains 88 books instead of the 66 I’ve used for decades.

I wanted to know where the giants came from. I wanted to know who the sons of God were who came to Earth and mated with women. When I read the Book of Enoch, I found it to be very settling for me to know even the names of the fallen watchers who took women for themselves. It is very eye-opening to know just how pervasive evil became in those days after God’s initial creation. That explains why God decided to destroy the Earth with a Great Flood.

Many of the things that happened in the Earth in the beginning years of time are so well explained in the Book of Enoch. Another of my problems has been finding an accurate version of the Ethiopian Bible. I will find one for sure. I had started studying the Book of Jubilees. It deals a lot with a mathematical approach to who God is and why things happen as they do.

If you wish to journey with me on my path into these studies, stay tuned.