Clarity...something that occurs when you remove all the debris and things blocking your view. Life gets choked full of dirt and debris at times. Some call it the issues of life and if we are not diligent in removing them..after a while our view and perspectives of situations are tainted.
I noticed something interesting that happens in our body. Many of us have woken up in the morning with this yellowish gooey stuff coming out from our eyes. Usually when you just woke up...as you rub your eyes you will notice this "eye wax" or "crusties" as it is known to some people. You see around our eye there is an organ also known as the plica semilunaris. This is the “crusty” or "eye wax" factory. It secretes a sticky mass that collects any foreign materials such as dust, pollen or debris. All this trash is surrounded by the sticky goo so that it does not scratch the sensitive cornea in your eye. Once the garbage is collected, the plica semilunaris “escorts” it out of the eye.
I'm a contact lens wearer and usually after wearing contacts for long hours, your vision gets blurred. My eyes start to feel itchy and uncomfortable. Usually when that happens, the next morning when I wake up, there is a substantial amount of "eye wax". I realize that the accumulation of the "eye wax" is most obvious after a good night 's rest.
Likewise in life..sometimes we go around collecting thrash..maybe in the form of disappointments, emotional hurts, bitterness and stress. After a while our vision gets distorted. We no longer see clearly. We start to see every situation through these "tharsh". That's why we start feeling insecure and defensive at times. We make poor judgment calls and become very confused. What happens biologically in our body I feel is very relevant also to our lives. Like the eye that collects all the debris, sometimes we need a good rest to allow the plica semilunaris to work effectively. Rather than continuing to do all the same things..going through the same routines, we need rest to re-examine ourselves. We need to set time aside for our plica semilunaris to work. This plica semilunaris is liken to our communication with God that sets the thrash apart. It is liken to our evaluation of our own lives to realize the distractions. This time set apart protects you from deeper hurts or more mistakes.
I noticed something interesting that happens in our body. Many of us have woken up in the morning with this yellowish gooey stuff coming out from our eyes. Usually when you just woke up...as you rub your eyes you will notice this "eye wax" or "crusties" as it is known to some people. You see around our eye there is an organ also known as the plica semilunaris. This is the “crusty” or "eye wax" factory. It secretes a sticky mass that collects any foreign materials such as dust, pollen or debris. All this trash is surrounded by the sticky goo so that it does not scratch the sensitive cornea in your eye. Once the garbage is collected, the plica semilunaris “escorts” it out of the eye.
I'm a contact lens wearer and usually after wearing contacts for long hours, your vision gets blurred. My eyes start to feel itchy and uncomfortable. Usually when that happens, the next morning when I wake up, there is a substantial amount of "eye wax". I realize that the accumulation of the "eye wax" is most obvious after a good night 's rest.
Likewise in life..sometimes we go around collecting thrash..maybe in the form of disappointments, emotional hurts, bitterness and stress. After a while our vision gets distorted. We no longer see clearly. We start to see every situation through these "tharsh". That's why we start feeling insecure and defensive at times. We make poor judgment calls and become very confused. What happens biologically in our body I feel is very relevant also to our lives. Like the eye that collects all the debris, sometimes we need a good rest to allow the plica semilunaris to work effectively. Rather than continuing to do all the same things..going through the same routines, we need rest to re-examine ourselves. We need to set time aside for our plica semilunaris to work. This plica semilunaris is liken to our communication with God that sets the thrash apart. It is liken to our evaluation of our own lives to realize the distractions. This time set apart protects you from deeper hurts or more mistakes.
Clarity comes to our biological vision when the thrash is escorted out via the "eye wax". I have instances when my vision gets very blurred throughout the day because of all the accumulation of protein in the contact lens as well as the debris that collects around my eye area. Likewise we need to slow things down sometimes to get rid of all the distractions that is blocking our perspectives. So don't feel guilty if you need to slow down sometimes. To all the workaholics out there sometimes that is the hardest thing to do. And even for myself I feel uneasy when I'm not doing much.
The truth is this...you will go further and have less detours if you are willing to remove all the thrash that is blocking your view.
The truth is this...you will go further and have less detours if you are willing to remove all the thrash that is blocking your view.
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