INTO THE DEEPEST DARKNESS

HERE IS THE BEGINNING TO THE BOOK I AM WRITING

How can one “know” things without knowing them? I don’t know the answer to that, but just as when I was a three year old child who “knew” that there was a God SOMEWHERE without being told, in 2014 I “knew” that I was going to go blind. I was watching a blind piano player and Gospel singer on the television, and deep inside me I just “knew” that in time, I too would be blind. It seemed preposterous. Yet I knew it without a doubt. But what I also knew was that through my blindness a great light would shine. Here was a blind person shining a great light through the singing of the Gospel. Nothing was impossible. At that time I did not feel sad or sorrowful, but excited. I was eager to meet the challenge. I kept the secret to myself. It was not something for broadcasting.

My blindness did not come upon me suddenly. It grew, slowly. It is hard now, to think back to how it happened.