KEEPING
ONE EYE OPEN

Topics: Spiritual Disciplines; Watchfulness

References: Matthew 26:41; Colossians 4:2

Hannah, three, came home from Bible school and announced that her new teacher “makes everyone bow their heads and close their eyes when we pray, but then keeps his eyes open.”

I asked Hannah how she would know that if her eyes were closed.

“I only close one eye at a time,” she replied.

—Malinda F., Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, “Life in Our House,” Christian Parenting Today (May–June 2000)