Spiritual Sight

I had an amusing conversation with an old friend from high school. She went back to what we learned in science class about how our eyes see. We see as soon as light comes into our eyes. We have photoreceptors at the back of our eyes called rods and cones. Cones are color-sensitive and rods are light-sensitive. They process what comes into our eyes and transmit this information through the optic nerve to our brain. I thought it was simply an interesting trivia.

- Rosanne Romero

It felt like we were just driving along leisurely when I felt she suddenly “swerved.” She started to relate to me a sermon she had listened to in her church about the spectacular eyesight of a lion. Instinctively, I buckled up and listened more intently. And I was wowed into silence.

The Science Behind the Eyes of Lions

I learned that the pupils of a lion are bigger than ours, and that on command, they are able to widen and stretch their pupils three times larger. Beat that! Talk about widening your eyes to see better.