Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Standing waiting for buses as a kid, I always could read which one it was before everyone else. At the age of 16 I went to get my eyes tested, as part of the preliminaries for joining the Police Cadets, I whizzed through the usual chart on the wall, and just to be smart read out the tiny writing at the bottom saying where the chart was made and who by. They put me on some other machines, testing for colour blindness and then depth perception – I recall looking down a tunnel and having to say what position various dots were on targets. At the end of the session, the Doctor said, “Well Mr Delaney, you have sniper vision.” I was devastated! I had wanted to be in the police so much, but I had some awful condition that he’d […]
