As I was putting my contacts in this morning, I got to thinking that putting contacts in is similar to facing the truth. Where did I pull that idea out of the air? I don’t know it just came to me in one of my rare moments of a flash of brilliance. Yes, I do have them once in awhile. No, I haven’t been keeping score on who is ahead brilliance or stupidity. I am hoping that brilliance is leading but maybe that is why I had one of those rare moments of a flash of brilliance in order to face the truth.
When getting contacts you first must decide that you want them and need them. Then you have to go to the eye doctor for an examination and of course plop down a wad of moolah to get the prescription. It may take several tries to find the perfect prescription for you but once you do you are able to see.
Searching, wanting to know, and facing the truth is similar because you must first decide that you want it and need. Of course we all need the truth in our lives but human nature specifically the flesh doesn’t want to face the truth. The heart is willing and courageous enough to face truth, it was hard wired to do that by our maker. The heart is always there waiting quietly in the wings of life’s stage to prompt you to speak and act out the truth of the script of your life. We all tend to like to ad lib when we don’t know the truth or don’t want to face it. We ad lib in hopes of stealing the scene but to ad lib it isn’t always what the director wants out of the script.
Now you have your contacts and the perfect prescription. The next phase is learning how to look in the mirror and put the contacts in. It’s no easy feat in the beginning. It takes a lot of poking one’s self in the eye, trying not to blink, and keep a steady look in the mirror. You discover that if you will look straight into the mirror and keep your eye on the contact it will go right in.
Truth isn’t any different. When you first face it you have to learn how to deal with it and use it. Sometimes truth at first will be like poking yourself in the eye over and over. Once you’ve poked yourself your eye tends to want to blink and close so it doesn’t get that finger of truth poked into it. But just as the contacts you realize that keeping a steady look in the mirror of truth and focus on seeing it will help the truth sink in.
One thing important about putting your contacts in is that you have them soaking in saline solution. This keeps all the germs and nasty stuff off of them and keeps your eye from getting infected. If your eyes get infected then you won’t be able to see or wear your contacts.
You need some kind of saline solution in life to keep all the nasty things, half truths, and fears at bay so that truth can have its work in you and keep moving you in the right direction. I think the bible is one of the first places you should go for answers to truth about yourself. Praying, asking God to help show you what you need to change in your life is another avenue. There also is all sorts of media out there in the world that is positive and truthful that can help an individual. Common sense is definitely a place where truth resides.
Once your first contact is in you are already seeing better and this makes the next one go in easier. When both are in you are able to see and face the day. Truth is the same way. Once you get the first part in you it makes the rest go easier. The more you practice putting your contacts in the easier it gets. Before long it is a piece of cake. The more you practice the truth the easier it is to do it and the better you life will be because you can actually see. Seeing the truth sets you free of dark places in you, fuzzy places in you, and places of fear that are in you. It allows your heart to courageously go forward so that you can make changes, achieve dreams, and most of all be all that you are meant to be.
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. ~Simone de Beauvoir
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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