Corrective Lenses

Our 3 kids had eye doctor appointments this week. Levi got new glasses (his last pair didn't last the year--broken by that mysterious Not Me kid). I remember getting glasses, when I hit 6th grade. My eyes got progressively worse until they levelled out around 20-450. That's right. I could see clearly at 20 feet what a normal person could see at 450 feet. In-stinkin-credible. I don't know that our kids have much hope of living without glasses.

Then I had lasik, thanks to the generosity of an eye doctor in our church. Totally revolutionary. I can see better than normal now (20-15!)

Things are going pretty well, but I'm having a fun/tough time sorting through all the stuff that I've been reading and taking in lately. I finished The Irresistable Revolution last night. I'm still working through the stuff that I heard about the International Justice Mission and the One Life Revolution. Our life group prayed for me last night...good to have friends on the journey...

Anyway, I'm thinkin' that it's easy to throw money at a problem. Not that I have a lot of money. I'm just sayin'...

It's hard to change my life.

But I think that's what Jesus was getting at. Change=Transformation. Dying to self. Living a New Life. All those phrases that I've heard all my life, all the stories about choosing another way (other than the me-first way).

New lenses for seeing the world...

Now to address the gulf that exists between what I see and know to be the way I/we are called to live and the way that I am currently living.

Does anybody have any tips on living simply?