August 17, 2006
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I saw my cornea in a hat today
No, really. I don't know if I can ever reproduce this weird phenomenon. I was lying on my back in the sun, black baseball cap over my face. The sun barely glittered thru the pores in the hat fabric, and I dozed with my eyes slightly open.
I don't know if you've ever done this, but with your eyes slitted, you can sometimes see bright lights go all crazy looking, as if through a kaleidoscope (fog or tears help a lot). I thought at first this is what I was seeing, and idly I played with how much I could open my eyes and still see the effect. Eyes full open, each glitter became a round iridescent shape sort of like a sunflower with very small petals, or like a large sea anenome fully open. Little spots and circles inside it would shift when I blinked. If I focused on the inside of my hat, all I saw was sunlight glitters. If I focused in a different way, like looking at those Magic Eye images, I saw the anenomes in their place... with careful concentration I could actually resolve the detail very well, one anenome at a time.
In a sudden flash of insight I realized what I was seeing: the surface of my own corneas, surrounded by the leading edge of my iris! So cool. I played with my corneas for at least six or seven minutes until my boys came up and roused me.
I feel like a kid: I completely wasted almost fifteen minutes of my day playing "stupid human tricks" and am delighted that I did so. I was enthralled with being "fearfully and wonderfully made", imagining God crafting each detail of my eye which until now I had never seen, only used. Sight is an amazing gift. It's amazing that sight is even possible, not to mention that so many living creatures possess it. And I possess this gift too, via these moistly delicate dust-strewn portals of the miraculous.
On another note, our recent electricity woes inspired me to write a letter to the editor of our local newsrag. Stop the presses: Nic wrote a letter. Okay, it's all I could do, since I'm not Phil Anschutz or a brilliant engineer.
Interested? Click here.Actually, I ought to write an article of my own, if I really want to use my gifts and help. But right now I'll be delighted to finish all the work on my desk first. Right now, that's really where I long to see God do miraculous things.
