Help Blayne See the World in a New Way

I spent two days in Nashville attending a conference at the TN School for the Blind — searching, learning, hoping. As a mom to a child with vision impairment, you are always looking for tools, answers, and opportunities that might help your child experience just a little more of the world. I walked into that conference carrying that same hope. I walked out having witnessed God orchestrate something so clearly that there is no other explanation.

After our first class, we were walking through the vendor hall meeting organizations that help the visually impaired and blind. One of the first tables we visited was PAVE — the same program that gifted Blayne his very first monocular months ago. That little tool allowed him to see farther than he ever had in his life. It changed things for him. For us. For our family.

They began telling us about new devices and then said, “You need to go speak to Nathan over there.”

So we did.

Within minutes of talking with him, everything shifted. I began sharing something that has been the deepest ache in my heart — something I have prayed for over and over. That one day, my biggest wish is for Blayne to be able to SEE a concert. We go all the time. Music is a huge part of our life. I always get as close as I possibly can. But for Blayne, concerts are colors and shapes — not details, not expressions, not emotion, just movement and light. I try to describe the moment, the excitement, the faces, the stage — but words can only fill in so much.

And in that conversation… the Holy Spirit moved.

Nathan paused, looked at me, and said he had a device — the Patriot View glasses — and he felt led to let Blayne borrow them for the concert we were attending that very Saturday. A device that could allow him to finally see faces. Expressions. Instruments. Tears. Smiles. Worship. REAL moments.

It was one of those moments where your heart knows before your head catches up — God was in the details.

And we witnessed something we have dreamed of for years —

Blayne seeing the world in a way he never has before.

A Glimpse Into Normal

Nathan graciously let us continue borrowing the glasses over the holidays — and y’all… the moments these glasses have given us have been priceless.

For the first time ever, Blayne got to sit with us and watch Christmas movies and actually see them — see the characters, the Christmas lights, the snow, the facial expressions, the details. The things most of us never think twice about.

He keeps saying, “I didn’t know that’s what that looked like.”

And every time those words leave his mouth, we blink back tears.

He is so excited, so proud, and so full of joy because he is finally getting to visually take in the world around him. Not blobs. Not shapes. Not guesses.

Real. True. Sight.

Why We Are Asking for Help

These Patriot View glasses cost $3,850 an amount that is simply out of reach for us without support. But the life-changing impact they have had in such a short time has shown us that this device isn’t just a luxury it is a priceless gift of independence, confidence, and connection.

We are asking for help because we have seen firsthand what these glasses allow him to experience — Christmas movies at home, church services, reading menus, recognizing faces, and hopefully one day seeing his world in detail wherever he goes.

Every single donation large or small helps bring us closer to making this miracle permanent for him.

If you can’t donate, prayers and shares mean just as much to us.

From the bottom of our hearts thank you for believing in Blayne and for being part of this story God is still writing. We know He provided this opportunity, and we trust He will continue to make a way.

God is so, so good.

And because of these glasses Blayne is finally getting to SEE just how beautiful this world truly is.