It’s Sunday morning and I am rushing around to get the kids and myself ready. As I put in my contacts my eyes are confronted with a terrible pain. It feels as if someone has jabbed my eye with a combination of sandpaper and scissors. As a seasoned contact wearer I know what this means—I’ve got a rip in my contact. “No big deal,” I think to myself, “I’ll just put in another pair.” Wrong! I’m all out of backup contacts. No time to get a new pair. I don’t have backup glasses. I’ve got only one solution—put in one of my wife’s lenses, which are not nearly as strong.
You need to know how bad my eyesight is. I cannot see the Big E. Without my contacts I cannot function normally. So with my wife’s spare contact in my eye ball I stand before the church and read from God’s Word. One side of the congregation is a blurry mess. The other side crystal clear. One side has vision the other nothing.
My mind immediately goes to the KJV translation of Proverbs 29:18. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Though, I’m convinced this verse is radically taken out of context in many leadership talks, I’m not convinced it says nothing about leadership. Because I know what it is like to not be able to see.
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