Blind Spot

Many people don’t know that the human eye has a blind spot in it’s field vision. There is a part of the world that we are literally blind to.

The problem with this is: the blind spot sometimes shields us from things that shouldn't be ignored.

Sometimes, our blind spots keep our lives bright and shiny.

When it comes to our blind spots: maybe our brains aren’t compensating… maybe they’re protecting us.

A new blind spot has been revealed to me lately.

At 13h00 my time, the ship needs to do another blackout. This is something you are required to do twice a year by Maritime law... and we have already completed our two this outreach. Problem: every time the big white Jesus ship comes to Benin (the voodoo (Satan) capital) we have "technical" issues upon both arrival and departure. (Its fine if you do not acknowledge that spiritual warfare exist - but, I live IN it... and there is a big spiritual battle happening onboard right now.)

We have to do another blackout (turn everything off) so that we can attempt to fix our problems that have all of sudden arose... things that are checked on weekly basis - will not turn on - example: the radar! There are many issues, apparently, all being ship related (and therefore, I have no idea what people are saying when they talk to me...) that need to be fixed.

Ok, so getting to the point. A scheduled blackout is for 8-12 hours. This blackout is NOT "scheduled"... it has to be done so that maybe we can get the heck out of this country! We will be without power until the problem is solved. This has the possibility to make us go without power AND TOLIETS is 36 hours.

Welcome to my recently discovered blind spot.