DIVINE DESTINY - The Story - Part 2

I call this chapter in my story: “Eyes to See at the DMV”.

There are some notices we receive in the mail that are downright ominous:

IRS (Notice to Audit); Jury Summons (Notice to Appear), Notice of Eviction, Notice of Foreclosure, Insurance Denial Notice…

I have a certain level of anxiety about these notices, but the one I dread the most is the DMV Renewal Notice, which inevitably has the little box checked off: “Vision Test Required”. It was this notice that I received on a fated day about three years ago that began weaving a Divine Moment for me.

 Since my last vision test at the DMV, my eyes had severely deteriorated to near blindness in my right eye. Somehow, the eye doctors manage to tweak my prescription every 5 years or so - and each time, the lenses get heavier and thicker making me look more and more like a Cyclops. Still, the right eye remains nearly blind. So, I knew that when the DMV said to me, “Cover your left eye and read the chart”, I wouldn’t pass. But I sensed that I was to make that appointment and not just forfeit my license. So I began assessing my options to help me pass the vision test - despite the seeming impossibility.

Option One: I considered asking a doctor if it was possible to make me some snap-on magnifying lenses to put over my glasses just for the eye exam. A Divine Nudge encouraged me to be prudent and check the DMV’s rules on such an attachment. Alas! Snap-ons were not allowed.
Option Two: Study for the test. I let my imagination run wild on this one. I could don a trench coat, put on dark prescription glasses, and sleuth from window to window at the DMV - copiously coping each line of each chart. Then I could memorize them, show up on testing day, and pass the vision test from memorization. I realized this was risky behavior, and that my memory was not that good. And of course, I knew this was not God’s will. (I used to do this years ago - without the trench coat - and when there were only two or three charts in the whole place. I passed many times with this technique.)

My last and only option was to pray: “Lord, you know I can’t read those charts if I cover my good eye. Lord, I’m a homemaker. You know I need to drive to do all the chores my family needs me to do”…  That was when I saw the blessings in not driving! No more grocery shopping - hurling 5lb bottled waters into my car, then wrestling them out of the trunk and into the garage. No more of the tedious, laborious driving chores. At last, my husband would discover the utter joy of being my chauffeur and companion in all my chores. “Driving Miss Kathy”. Oh, this was all good!
　
But where I really, really convinced myself that having my license revoked was a good thing, was that maybe God was saving the world from calamity. You see, apart from being visually impaired, I am “vehically“ challenged…Seriously! I dred parking lots and habitually park my car as far away from others as I can - because I seem to have a destiny for calamity in parking lots with parked cars - as well as trees and shrubbery. (I have a question: “Why on earth do so many parking lots have trees or shrubbery”?) I have a destiny for disaster with these objects, too. ..

Anyway, I did fervently travail with God about all this. I let Him know that I totally understood if my driving days were over. And if I hadn’t cheated all those other times, I would have been forced to hang up my keys years ago. “Years ago” - those words reeled me back to when my driving career began.

To be continued in next blog:  DIVINE DESTINY - The Story - Part 3