How Many Pairs?

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On Monday I had my eyes tested – my annual check-up at Boots Opticians. The assistant did initial checks, filled in forms. The optometrist did the more detailed tests – letter charts, eye inspection…

I need new glasses. New frames were selected; I was told the price. All as expected… But then the unexpected. How many pairs of glasses do you want?

Tim and Jill gave me lovely birthday present. Made of thin twigs bound together it looked lovely, but I hadn’t a clue what it was. I discovered… It’s a bird feeder! I’ve put fat-balls in it. Our garden birds visit it regularly.

I could see what it was… I needed to see with understanding.   

The old Gene Pitney song starts, ‘In the eyes of the world, I’m a loser just wastin’ my time…’ He doesn’t think much of himself.

However… ‘But in the eyes of my woman, I stand like a hero, a giant, a man who’s as tall as can be…’ Why? Because ‘She’s lookin’ through the eyes of love when she looks at me.’

In Bob Roxburgh’s book ‘Kingdom First’. Stanley Biggs writes in the foreword:

‘Were this foreword to be a headstone it could well read, ‘He Lived Dialogically’

Scholars describe dialogic space as ‘a platform to look at the situation from more perspectives than one, create room for discussion, and seek mutually beneficial consensus…’’

…Seeing through the eyes of others.

The old ‘tin tabernacle’, corrugated iron church I went to as a child was rebuilt. A text in silver letters was at the front of our new church: ‘We would see Jesus John 12:21.’ Literally?

At our communion service we sometimes sung the old Charles Spurgeon hymn:

Amidst us our Beloved stands,
and bids us view His pierced hands…

Seeing with eyes of faith!

How many pairs of glasses? I need five… Tim and Jill’s for seeing with understanding, Gene’s for seeing with love, Bob’s for seeing as others see, church’s for seeing with faith… as well as the ‘Boots’ pair.

7 thoughts on “How Many Pairs?”

  1. You have such a wonderful way of looking at things, Malcolm.

    I love reading your posts which sometimes start out kind of corny but wind up quite profound.

    At least, that’s the way I see it . . . I really love looking at things from your perspective.

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    1. PS: I’ve always been a Gene Pitney fan ever since I was about six years old and heard on the radio, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence,” but I’d never heard “Looking Through the Eyes of Love” before. I looked up on the web to see if Pitney was still alive and was sad to see that he had died from a heart attack about 20 years ago at the relatively too young age of 66 right after a successful concert in Cardiff, Wales, where he had ended with his famous hit “A Town Without Pity” and received a much-deserved standing ovation. But the bio also said that at the height of his career in the 1960s, he had married his childhood sweetheart, and the two lifelong lovers had three sons. “Looking Through the Eyes of Love” was most likely an autobiographical love song to his bride.

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