image: detail of Homemade Glasses, Maratani Refugee Camp, Mozambique 2001 by Karen Kessi-Williams

There’s no teacher like pain. Disaster makes us examine our priorities.

“I see clearly now. Just one more chance? Please?”

We usually get that chance. And if you’re like me, we muff it.

We see the world through homemade glasses.

Our personal values are the lenses.

We desire, we admire, we judge and we hate according to the lenses in our frames.

Do your lenses need cleaning?

Are you seeing as clearly as you should?
Is it time for a new prescription?

Moses got new glasses on a mountaintop.

“When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him… When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. But whenever he entered the Lord's presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the Lord.” – Exodus 34

The mountain is always there. Climb up it and talk to God.

A radiant face is a good thing.

– Roy H. Williams