I do not see my Spiritual Blindness
On the sixth of May 2012, I brought a new friend along to church. He was Chinese-educated. We were late. But I caught enough of the sermon to know that the speaker was a man who knew God personally, and knows of God's wisdom and is experiencing God even in the here and now, and not just in the past. There was an altar call. Because of a Singaporean Indian monk's behest from weeks earlier to surrender and let myself be one with the universe and one with God, I went forward.
When I was there, a humble prayer acolyte came and prayed for me a simple prayer of more power, more Spirit. As she spoke, although my eyes were closed and eyes bowed, something not of myself happened. I am as sane as any normal person. Which means that although I may daydream about things that have yet to come, I would not outright lie. What happened was something peculiar happened to my eyes. It isn't that they swelled, but even as I can touch type and close my eyes besides now, my eyes see. And yet I was not afraid - I was simply curious. Something happened to my eyelids. You must know that I have cried at altar calls, or in the pews or maybe in school or over cathartic movies or romance books. I know the involuntary moving of the eyeball or perhaps tics. But this was different.
It was as if my eyelids were being stretched open even though nobody laid hands on me, both the bottom bags and the top lids. I really have no words to explain what happened because although you may have guessed by now I'm quite a wordy person, but for this, i have no words to describe what happened to my eyes. I do not know.







