Sight is for the Blind: April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

Thunder Dog

I really don't like that I do it but I do. There is no excuse! The truth is that I am guilty of giving in to a temptation that all parents face. It seems that I am guilty of being over-protective. Well, when you have two blind children one might justify the fact that they are so or even just plain deny it based on necessity of circumstances. NO, the truth is that I am over-protective. Over-protective is even, really, just a nice way of saying "controlling parent full of worry and anxiety, scared to death something might happen to their kid". Ok, now that that is off my chest let me tell you about a wonderful book.

The story of Michael Hingson and his guide dog Roselle and how they escaped from the 78th floor of the WTC on 9/11 is absolutely remarkable! You can check out an ad for the book called "Thunder Dog" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nRU4Rh2rBM
It is because of Michael's story that I decided to encourage my son and daughter to try riding a bike! Matthew absolutely loved it! Yes, a 5 year old blind boy learning to ride a bike.

I am so proud of my son and the courage that it takes to try. Don't gasp and think that I am throwing caution to the wind, I am not. I just refuse to be that person that limits my son from doing all that he can do or atleast trying. I am not going to disable him by my fear! He will get hurt and he will fall but I will be there (if at all possible) to help him back up. Thank you Michael Hingson!

"...Safety is from the Lord" Psalm 4:8
"...When I fall, I shall arise" Micah 7:8

Famous Quotes About Vision

"You are blind because you believe you can see, not because you cannot see." Unknown

"Where there is no vision the people perish" King Solomon

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision" Helen Keller

"Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith" Stephen S Wise

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" Gian Carlo Menotti

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." Jonathan Swift

"We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision" Unknown

"People only see what they are prepared to see" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome." John Kotter

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view." Mao Tse-Tung

"When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic." Charles R Swindoll

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton

"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." Martin Luther
King Jr.

"For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be". Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Mine eye affecteth mine heart" The Prophet Jeremiah

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened" Paul the Apostle

"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." G.K. Chesterton

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for" John Lubbock

"The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of." Charles H Perkhurst

"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:" John the Apostle

"For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind." Jesus Christ

"For we walk by faith, not by sight"
Paul the Apostle