Audrey's vision therapy starts everyday with eye calisthenics--exercises to strengthen her eyes.
She sits perfectly still, keeping her head facing forward, and follows this little red ball with her eyes. I move it up and down and all around, and her goal is to follow it smoothly with her eyes. When we first started therapy, her eyes jumped all over the place while we did this, but now her eyes are moving so much more smoothly and easily.
Then I hold it still at different points to help her stretch her eyes. She's so tempted to look away--because it can hurt. Try holding your finger off to the side of your head, almost out of your line of sight, and focus on it for a count of 10 or so. I promise your eyes will feel it as they stretch!
So what stretches your eyes of faith?
I was thinking about it in terms of these exercises and realized that focusing on Jesus, even when it seems as if he's almost out of your line of sight, stretches our faith. Of course it's much easier to just turn your head and look straight on at him. But circumstances and life pull us in another direction and so we use our eyes of faith to look at him, stretching them and strengthening them to focus on something that seems hard to see. And as we do, our eyes get stronger.
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