Seeing through "newborn eyes"

I am musing about...

Seeing through "newborn eyes"!

What is it about the wonder and joy of watching a newborn open his eyes and look around, taking in the world around him for the very first time. It grabs at your heart with sweet intensity, it awakens awe.

We just got home from California and being with our son and his family as they welcomed their third child, a precious little boy, Oliver.

As I held his cuddly little body (swaddled so tightly and lovingly by his mother), and gazed into his sleeping face, I couldn't help but stare. And stare some more. Just taking it all in. Feeling the love swell inside for this newest member of our growing family! His sisters were taken in as well, oohing, and aahhing, kissing and smiling. Baby brother was here!

As I watched his innocent little face, it would contort into the funniest expressions at times. It made me smile and sometimes, even chuckle out loud.

And then his eyes would flutter open, only to quickly close again. A second later, they reopened and soon he was staring up at me. Eventually he would turn his head and look around. Then his eyes would close again. I loved to watch him watching. To stare at him staring. I would just sit there for the longest time, staring into that sweet little face!

It made me think about "newborn vision". They say that it is not real clear at first, that it takes time for their eyes to focus. But oh when they do! You can tell when they spot the light; how the little one seems to fixate upon it.

And so it is with us when we first surrender to Jesus, when we are first "born again"! At first, we may not see everything clearly, but as we learn to focus on the Light, we start to take in the world around us with a new and glorious reality.

There is wonder! There is awe! There is curiosity and a desire to see and know more. Of this way. Of this Jesus!

That first love is so exciting, so new, so wondrous! May we strive to keep that delight as we mature in Christ! May we not lose sight of the joy of that newfound realization..

that we "once were blind, but now we see!"

And oh the beauty of that which we see...

As we look and fix our eyes on the very Creator of our sight...

On our sweet Jesus!!

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