Pure Kingdom - Finding an Emergent Eschatology
I was born with glaucoma, an eye disease that can result in blindness that typically only afflicts the elderly. I read once that only 1 in 100,000 infants have the propensity to be born with glaucoma. Pretty slim odds, to be sure. Still, I was born with it. When the genes and chromosomes of my parents joined forces the resulting union contained a blight, and that blight nearly left me blind. The surgery to save my sight was very new in 1969, and only two doctors in the United States were doing it. Funny. It's outpatient surgery now, but then it was pretty serious and fairly experimental. After all was said and done, I ended up legally blind in one eye---which is better than how things could have turned out, but not ideal. Though I am legally blind in my right eye, I can still see things like shadows, colors and shapes that I can sometimes identify. It's a whole lot better than nothing, I suppose. Because of its blindness, my right eye tends to wander a bit, and...