blind love

let's just be perfectly honest, what thoughts come to mind when we think of a person who is blind?


we feel sadness for that individual automatically, don't we?


maybe we even place that person into a handicapped or special-needs category? 


what a sad life that person must have we think quietly to ourselves. and how scary it must be to only be surrounded by total darkness all the days of your life.


it is hard to imagine that person has never woke up to see the brightness of the sun beaming down upon the clouds in the first hours of daylight.


the very thought of not being able to physically see something so cherished right in front of you, like a newborn baby or the bright red color of septembers beautiful welcoming flower, only using touch as their sense of sight, seems unimaginable in itself.


but what we don't realize is, these people are not handicapped or special in any way. these people are perfectly normal, except they have something beyond what we call "normal" and that is, they have a gift of what i call blind love, and even though i don't wish blindness on anyone, i believe what they possess is beautiful and i think the world could really learn a thing or two from the blind. 

maybe they will never see the sun shining as we do with our eyes, but that doesn't mean they can't feel the crisp warmth of the morning invigorating their chill bumps as they step out onto their front porch that same morning as we do.


i have never been blind by no means, but i can imagine that person stands a few moments longer than we do, hoping to grasp every ounce of sunlight they possibly can. i imagine God looks down from the heavens and smiles upon that person thankful that someone took the time to enjoy what He created just out of glory for us. what a beautiful person, what an advantage he/she has over me, i could only bet your thinking right now.


maybe that person will never see the sweet dimples forming on a babys face as it giggles, but i can imagine that same person holds that child in a much different way as we do, a more sentimental way that we could never imagine. every laugh, giggle, cry and burp is remembered and recollected in their mind i can only but wonder.


and like i said before, i don't wish blindness on myself or anyone for that matter, but i truly believe God has his reasons. i believe, he chose those people and thought so much of them  that He wanted to give them the gift of a different kind of love, he gave them the gift to be able to see things in a much more beautiful way, a way in which a person can only see without the sense of sight.


i hope we look past the thoughts of sadness for these people, because i can bet they don't want to be felt sorry for. i hope we learn to enjoy the little things in life in the same way that they do. we should be thankful for everything we see, feel, touch, hear and smell in the world.

and i hope we can someday see love in a blind perspective.