Ranchgirl’s Weblog

For: The Institute of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephens University, Essentials Blue Online Worship Theology Course with Dan Wilt

Myopia is a troublesome thing to deal with. I can see perfectly upclose, but the world is a complete blurr a few feet away! Myopia effects other areas as well, like LIFE!!! For example, I can get so involved and focussed on “me” that sometimes I can scarcely see the needs of those around me; or sometimes I get entangled in present circumstances and neglect seeing the big picture! There is a tendency when you live in a small community to be “myopic” and only be concerned with local events, failing to recognize that there is a really big world out there!

Sometimes even in the realm of worship, we can become myopic. The last thing a worship leader needs is to lose his glasses, or contacts! If I have a contact fall out on Sunday morning when I am leading worship at the keyboard, the outcome is probably not going to be good, because I don’t have all the chords in my head, and I am going to make mistakes……if fact, it might be disastrous! The greatest failure, though, comes when I am so “nearsighted” that I only see the music and not the people.

Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons said, “The glory of God is a human being truly alive.” I want to SEE people the way God sees them whether I am on a platform on Sunday morning, or standing in line at the grocery store. Excuse me, have you seen my glasses?