I get the same question almost daily:
"What can she see?"
Well, Lilah is an emerging speaker who is daily developing her speech. So, I don't know exactly..yet. She cannot tell me the answer to that from her eyes. Not yet.
But, I can watch her eyes, see how she pulls items in to her face and examines them. I have also paid close attention when doctors or anyone with knowledge about the eyes begins to speak. I want to know what my girl sees and how this life is processed for her.
This is what I came up with...
But, I think this helps give a bigger understanding as to how Lilah views this world with her eyes.
Now, as soon as I typed that the memories came flooding back to me of posts almost 4 years ago when I wept at my child being born blind. At what the doctors said. At the prognosis. At the thought of transplants. At how MAD I was with God for "doing this" to my child.
Boy, haven't "I" changed?!
I am not mad, at all, with God. I am actually quite emotional on a daily basis about my miracle. I post and post and post on Facebook about all the things my sweet girl does. I am utterly PROUD of the woman she is. And she isn't even 4...yet ( this Sunday!)
Lilah has never had a transplant. Lilah is growing and learning each day. Lilah's smile, her laughter, her joy radiates from her and she makes each and every one of us a better person. God has given me a gift. God has given me this exceptional child to help change our world.
Lilah is always happy. Ever joyful. Dancing. Singing. Loving.
Don't you think, even just for a minute, that maybe SHE is the lucky one? Her limited vision makes her other senses greater. She smells better, listens more carefully, feels with more precision. She loves deeply...everyone she encounters.
She is more Christ-like than most of us have ever hoped to be. And the "ah ha" moment just went off... didn't it?! That is how we are suppose to be to each other...
"listen more, love deeper..."
Thank you, God, for blessing ME with better "vision" through Lilah.
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