Make Me Blind That I May See
This past weekend I was in Washington state for a Christian music conference. Wow. I could write several blog posts on what I learned and how I was changed, and maybe I will. But for now I’m gonna write about Noel. Noel came the second day of the conference (I would have remembered if she had been there the first day.) Someone brought her in and sat her down at a pew a few rows back and to the right of me. When I say someone brought her in, I mean led her by the hand because Noel is blind. That part was obvious right away, not only because of how she was helped to a seat, but also because of the way she kept her eyes shut and felt her way along the pew. What became obvious after that was that she also has some other issues it seems, perhaps mental health issues that caused her to sway in her seat incessantly and blurt things out on occasion. It was not the Tourette’s syndrome type of random blurting sometimes associated with that disorder. This was fully church-appropr