The blurred text began in the fourth grade. Each subsequent visit to the eye doctor offered a report of vision loss. My vision was declining at such a steady rate that my doctor was concerned that I may be on the unfortunate path of loosing my sight. As I hit adolescence my vision fortunately plateau. I couldn’t imagine the thought of losing the gift of sight. It is reported that every 20 minutes, someone in our nation loses his or her eyesight. A terrifying thought. Most people, like myself, would rather lose some other sense, than our eyesight. What would it be like to not be able to watch my beautiful kids grow up? Jesus performed so many incredible miracles in the Bible. Jhn 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. In fact, so many, that only a few were recorded. It appears that the most often miracle, is making blind eyes see. Jhn 9:5-7 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. One of the amazing components to this miracle of Jesus giving sight to this blind man was the fashion He worked. I don’t know if you have ever had mud in your eyes, but an eyelash can be a bit irritating. A grain of sand in my eye can arrest all activity and cause me to flush out the irritant. The idea here is that this mud must have been frustrating. Then Jesus tells the blind man to trek to the pool of Siloam to wash it out. According to a commentary, this pool was 700 yards away. Perhaps an easy task for you and I, but he was a blind man. Sometimes the Lord will allow the things that are irritating or frustrating in our lives in order to will drive us to the water of His word so that we may be healed. Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word. There will be times the Lord will allow events and circumstances that will be frustrating or irritating before we are healed. Accept the mud, don’t despise it.