For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor 5:7 (NKJV)
PART 2 – Blind Faith
Yesterday I mentioned the “Invisibilia” podcast episode, “How to Become Batman”. In it the hosts, Lulu and Alix, introduce Daniel Kish, a man who’d had both of his eyes removed when he was a toddler.
Daniel’s introduction has him leading Lulu deep through the Californian woods. Yes… a blind man leading the way down a complicated and potentially dangerous path. From a young age, Daniel learned to navigate the world using mouth-clicks, much a like a bat uses echolocation to see. Daniel has learned to use these clicks to make sense of what is around him and for this reason accurately negotiate everyday life.
This ability has allowed him to do some things most un-common for the average blind person. Climbing trees, riding horses and riding bikes just to name a few.
What is more astounding than Daniel’s ability to supersede our expectations of what blind people can achieve, is his rationality that it is completely normal. That, for the most part, he really can “see”.
Despite the expectations and stigma of society, Daniel proved that the blind aren’t as impaired as we think.
Go ahead and Google “Daniel Kish” and watch the Youtube clip of him riding a bike around a car park, navigating cars, clicking and riding as if it were second nature.
What Daniel does defy, are the belief systems we’ve built on our cumulative human understanding, and push the boundaries of what we can now believe is humanly possible.
He forces our old “limited” thinking to die and allows belief in the “impossible” to soar.
The Wright Brother’s (the famous pioneer aviators) father was a preacher. He would often say in his sermons, “If a man were born to fly, God would have made him with wings”. Those brothers must’ve been fooling around during those sermons because that thinking did not sink in.
Or maybe they chose the listen to the one about “faith and not sight”…
Are you gonna let your eyes get in the way of your belief?
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