Kalden

All I saw around me was faded, blacks and grays shaded, Now I see what penetrates and burns my eyes, I shield my sight and grow accustom to this new light, The time it takes for the pain to leave feels like an eternity, crying for the animals to murder me, They scream no and tell me to endure, keeping my head up to what is pure, I wait. My eyes settle in the sockets of my skull, they feel at ease, nothing is dull, I feel at peace. I see all the beauty and clearness around me, I no longer desire to flee. I'm accepting the true, as I get used to the view. Now I see in the light, now I see in the light.

The story of my life doesn't star little ol' me, the story has me in it but it's not about me at all. In fact the story is about God and how he found this poor wretched soul in his sorrow and bitterness and redeemed him. Healed him of his blindness and gave him new sight. Along with that came new life. This is the story of my life. There's so much more I could say, so much more in depth I could go but the story isn't finished yet... It has only just begun.

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I read this somewhere. Long ago. Each time I travel to a new culture, I feel like I have found new eyes. 

I've been pondering the reason as to why I've ended up back in this desert, the very land that sucked me dry once before. But it seems I have come with new eyes, perhaps to look a little closer at Your sky, to give me another chance to see how Your faithfulness sparkles even in the darkest of nights. The vast expanse didn't light up quite the same way then as it did tonight. The mountains didn't quite seem as glorious, the air wasn't quite as crisp. Your essence, albeit a mere fraction, was captured in single moment of a gaze; Your intricacies unfold in every direction. Only with my change in sight, am I able to even understand such possibilities of comfort among this desolate plain. Thank You for restoring the once blind, to Your unique and detailed creation.