
From the Editor ...
I thought the world was a kaleidoscope of blurry lights and
Christmas was all about Santa. But
two things happened in the early
spring before I turned seven: I got
my first pair of glasses (powder blue
frames), and my parents decided to
send me to Sunday school.
On that first Sunday, I couldn’t
take my eyes off the pink-flowering
tree outside the classroom’s double
window…until the teacher handed
me a lesson leaflet with a picture of
Jesus putting mud on a man’s eyes.
“Uh-oh, this can’t be good,” I
gasped, certain that Jesus was
going to get into trouble for playing
around with mud, and puzzled
why my classmates were staying
so quiet about the obvious prank.
Then the teacher told us how Jesus
made that blind man see (John
9:6). Wide-eyed I blurted: “Jesus
can do that??”
My eyeglass frames are purple now
(go figure!), and come spring I will
see a half dozen pink trees blossoming
outside my front window.
They both serve to remind me how
that little girl — just like the blind
man — came to see the world…and Jesus…for the very first time.
Nancy Graf Peters
Editor-in-Chief
editor@lwml.org |