My New Life After Going Blind
“What happens now? What am I going to do?” I found myself constantly asking these questions. It had been a year of painful recovery and harsh reality. After an extensive series of unsuccessful eye surgeries, I was blind. A wife, mother of three, a classroom teacher. In a matter of weeks, my life had drastically changed forever. I chose to spend the endless days sitting and praying for my family and friends, my former students, those at church, missionaries. This became my ministry when it seemed to me, at the time, I could do nothing else. It was extremely difficult to find myself physically disabled and not able to live doing what I loved: taking care of my family and teaching. But I firmly believe in the power of prayer and continued to lift other’s burdens before the Lord. After that first year, I decided a new ‘normal’ had entered my life. My vision was no longer available to me. What was I going to do...
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