I finally went to the optometrist this Saturday. My glasses had become scratched, and my last checkup was close to two years ago.

It was time.

Now for most folks, a trip to the optometrist is no biggee. A puff of air on the eye, and a few drops in the ocular space, some flashing lights and staring through some fuzzy glass for ten minutes. For most, simply an inconvenience, a necessity to acquire a new set of eye crutches!

But for me, something went wrong in my mind a long time ago. Anything to do with eyeballs simply grosses me out. I get all gurgly inside, and simple leave a group if I think a conversation about eyes will get too graphic. And to think of contacts? No – not even a consideration!

So when I ended up in the optometrist’s chair, I was somewhat preemptively apologetic. Almost immediately, as the doctor came in, I warned her I was not going to be a very good patient, that I was really particular about eyeballs, and that I don’t mean to be difficult, but that is the patient she had.

She looked at me and asked me if I was an engineer.

Pardon me? What makes you ask me that?

She mentioned that many of her patients that are “particular” about their eyes are engineers, and that got me thinking. A subtle characteristic that I didn’t even realize was placing me in that group of humans known as engineers!

As I walk this life, I pray that more and more subtle characteristics of the Lord Jesus may be found in my life. Actions and attitudes that have “rubbed off on me” by being near the Master, things that I don’t even think of.

May it be so!

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