Are You Still Watching?

We don't have cable television nor do we have Direct TV...satellite, any of that...We just have a monthly subscription to Netflix and we love it!

There are no commercials with which to contend, and I can watch whatever I want whenever I want it! I also love that Netflix will stop after it's shown you three straight episodes of a show and will say, "Are you still watching?" You have the option to hit CONTINUE or go back to the menu.

Clearly, their belief is, "We'll make this convenient in that we'll start three episodes in a row without making you do any work...BUT, we also know that you don't want to fall asleep and then miss an entire season of a TV show, so we'll stop at three and make YOU decide if you're ready to go on.

I wonder what life would be like if God would stop progressing our LIVES whenever we tuned out on him.

I think I would still be 10 years old.

How OFTEN do we fall asleep and STOP WATCHING God?.

How OFTEN do we have God running in the background while we're doing other things, and suddenly we are three episodes in and have missed the story?

We have so many distractions in our lives these days: social media, sports, games, family...all of them CAN be good, but all of them can become idols that pull us away from God and take a position of utmost importance in our daily lives. 

ARE WE STILL WATCHING GOD?

Here's the irony in my writing, and COMPLETING this particular blog post...it's been sitting in my drafts folder for three years. THREE YEARS it took me to finish something that I had thought about writing. I'm a little surprised that when I logged into Blogger, there wasn't a pop-up window that would say: ARE YOU STILL WRITING?


Written in response to The Write Prompts

Blessed Enough to be Speechless ~ Guest Blogging Day

Image "Mother Giving Hand to Child" Courtesy of David Castillo Dominici/freedigitalphotos.net

While he was saying this to me, 

I bowed with my face toward the ground and was speechless.  Daniel 10:15  NIV

A few weeks ago we were at an ophthalmologist's office.  My daughter was meeting this specialist for the first time as she has several eye conditions which include, but are not limited to; aniridia (no irises in the eyes), and glaucoma (high pressure within the eyes).

If you've never seen how doctors measure the eye pressures in children and infants, they typically use an item called a tonopen.  This pen must be placed directly on the eye ball, right where the iris and pupil are located.  The pen takes several readings which reflect how high the pressure in the eye is. 

Because my daughter doesn't have irises, she is photosensitive; meaning, she has extreme sensitivity to light.  She wears sunglasses at all times when she is outside, even if the sun is low on the horizon or behind clouds. 

Keep in mind that my family just moved from the Midwest to the far West under a year ago.  We have become acquainted with all of our new doctors, but don't know them NEARLY as well as we did our doctors in Wisconsin.  Often, I just assume that the doctor knows what he or she is doing; but that's not the best thing when it comes to rare diseases.

For example, when the doctor was trying to check my daughter's eye pressures with the tonopen, she made her tip her head back and stare straight up into an overhead fluorescent light.  It didn't dawn on me to tell the doctor to turn the light off, nor to ask her to dim the light.  My daughter kept closing her eyes while the doctor had the tonopen set on the eye ball attempting to get a reading.  

I watched, silently, as they both struggled to do their jobs:  my daughter was struggling to protect her eye from the blinding light and the doctor was struggling to get a reading as quickly and accurately as possible.

It was excruciating to watch.  

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Evie Jo's Sight Factory

Every human being is equipped with a sense called "sight." The sight comes from a place called the Sight Factory. Evie Jo had two major CEO's at her Sight Factory: Louisa Left-Eye and Ruby Right-Eye. This is a story about how the two CEO's dealt with major upheaval in their company.

In the early development of the Sight Factory, one important employee forgot to come to work, Isabella Iris. She didn't know she was supposed to work at the Sight Factory because the Human Resource managers on chromosomes 11 and 15 translocated some information and forgot to schedule Isabella Iris for her orientation. It was very unforunate that Isabella Iris couldn't work at the Sight Factory as she had such a colorful personality.

Louisa Left Eye had to work extra hard because of the Human Resource manager's miscommunication. HR didn't fully develop the employees as the Sight Factory and they even hired bad employees like Gary Glaucoma and Cataract Kate. Louisa Left Eye was trying to fire Gary Glaucoma from the very first day. She would write him up for disruptive behavior and try to retrain him with drops and surgeries. These fixes all were temporary, and a few weeks later, Gary would act up again. Gary Glaucoma liked to pressure Louisa Left Eye and she didn't work well under pressure.

In June of 2005, Louisa thought she had solved the problem by brining in Ahmed, the implanted valve to help relieve her pressure and eventually fire Gary Glaucoma. Several months passed, however, and suddenly Ahmed quit working and that allowed Gary to misbehave again. Louisa Left Eye was under so much pressure that her half of the Sight Factory became foggy and clouded over. Cataract Kate took advantage of the fogginess and she became a larger and larger presence as well. Soon, Gary and Kate prevented any work from being done at the Sight Factory at all.

Poor Louisa Left Eye felt she had failed Evie Jo. But, Evie Jo had already started using Ruby Right Eye for the majority of her Sight Factory needs. Evie Jo was just tired of the pressure from Gary Glaucoma, so she gave Louisa Left Eye early retirment and decided all her Sight Factory needs would go through Ruby Right Eye from that day forward.
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