Breakfast Conversation

This morning my 11-year-old, Kara, said she had dreamed that she hatched a chicken egg with an improvised incubator made from a lamp and a drawer. My Kara has such a nurturing heart; she even dreams about taking care of somebody. She has a pet rabbit, Bella, who is the most pampered rabbit in the world.
Bella had joined us for this conversation, and I started wondering out loud how the world must look to an animal that has eyes on the sides of its head, and how its brain processes that. Then my oldest daughter, Amy, told us about what she's been learning about human vision. She said our eyes see upside down, and our brain interprets it as rightside up. I think there's a spiritual analogy here. Ephesians 4:15 and 5:30 speak of the church as a body, with Jesus as its head, which of course includes the brain. Jesus takes our upside down view of life and turns it rightside up so we can see things as they are!
But Jesus doesn't just help us see; He also gives careful, loving attention to every member of His body: every person's needs (Philippians 4:19), every person's every thought (Psalm 139:1-2). "How precious...are Your thoughts to me, O God!....Keep me as the apple of Your eye (Psalm 139:17, 17:8).