9/8/24 Lord, let us sore with the Eagles. ❤️

Perfecting the skill of waiting on God.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait upon God get fresh strength.
They spread their wings and soar like eagles,
They run and don't get tired,
they walk and don't lag behind.

Have you seen an eagle soaring high in the sky? This magnificent bird is meant to fly high. Unfortunately, mountaineers and hikers breathe with difficulty at higher altitudes (https:with only one-third of available oxygen, but not the eagle. This is because they have large lungs, a de
nse network of blood vessels in their wing muscles, specially developed mitochondria in their cell structures and specially modified hemoglobin in their blood.

Eagle is the only bird that embraces the turbulence to push itself higher. When other birds flee from the weather, the eagle actively engages stronger winds to fly high above storms instead of seeking shelter. This article presents astonishing facts about bold eagles. Keep on reading.

Eagles of large size can fly above many storm clouds like golden and bald eagles. They fly up to 11,000 feet above sea level, the altitude at which many small planes  As a resu
lt, the Eagle enters space when a storm occurs, and it usually cannot reach there in good weather.

This act of boldness gives the eagle a broader view of its surroundings. When the eagle is above the storm, without any rough winds, its flights become smooth with less effort.

What is eagle eye vision?
By Jill Neimark

Of all the eyes God has ever produced, those of the eagle — with its large, hooked beak, pale yellow iris and powerful talons — may be the most extraordinary.
Embedded on either side of its face, an eagle’s eyes give it nearly panoramic vision. If you were an eagle, you could see a rabbit running from three miles away. If you had an eagle’s ultraviolet light perception, you could track a tiny vole from the sky by the UV rays reflected from its urine.
And while most humans have 20/20 vision, eagles are blessed with an astounding 20/5 vision. That means that what looks sharp and clear to us at 5 feet is just as clear to an eagle from 20 feet away.

Galatians 6:1

Galatians 6
BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in misconduct or sin of any sort, you who are spiritual [who are responsive to and controlled by the Spirit] should set him right and restore and reinstate him, without any sense of superiority and with all gentleness, keeping an attentive eye on yourself, lest you should be tempted also.

No wonder we use the term “eagle eyes” to describe superb vision.
So how does an eagle do it? How are its eyes like our own, and how are they different? Will technology and science ever help us catch up to the eagle and bring us our own version of raptor vision? Maybe so!
How good is eagle vision?

Romans 11:8
As it is written, God gave them a spirit (an attitude) of stupor, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, [that has continued] down to this very day.

The eagle’s vision “is so far superior to ours that we can only try to imagine what their world must look like,” says William Hodos, an expert in bird vision and a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Maryland.
Both human and eagle eyes are built like a camera with a lens, containing light- and color-detecting cells on the retina called cones.
In the center of the retina is a special area called the foveawhere the cones are incredibly densely packed. The fovea in an eagle is like a convex, deep pit, according to Hodos, and in humans, it’s like a shallow bowl.
That depth allows eagles’ eyes to act much like a telephoto lens to capture images. 
In a human, he explains, each fovea has 200,000 cones per millimeter. Not only do eagles have two foveae per eye, each is packed with a million cones per millimeter.
You might compare an eagle’s eye to a modern computer screen, with densely studded pixels giving extraordinary clarity and sharpness to every image. “Their central fovea is for close inspection,” Hodos explains. “Their lateral fovea is used more for distance vision.”

Joel 2:28
And afterward I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

Eagle eyes are on the sides of their heads for a reason
Our eyes are on the front of our head, giving us excellent binocular vision but poor peripheral vision. We need both eyes in order to see a complete three-dimensional image.
An eagle’s eyes are more to the sides of the head. Though not as lateral as other birds, their eyes are fixed and unmoving in their sockets, angled 30 degrees from the midline of the face.
As a result, eagles have a 340-degree visual field compared to our 180 degrees. They are also capable of using binocular and monocular vision, and they see a three-dimensional world the way we do.
Eagles move their heads every five seconds
Eagles move their heads to the left, right or straight ahead every five seconds, according to a Duke University study. When an object is close, they are likely to look straight at it and view it head-on, but as it becomes more distant, they scrutinize it by turning their heads to the side.
Imagine turning your head to the side continually to scan the earth beneath you, and, after locating your prey, looking straight ahead and diving in for the kill. 
Eagle eyes are big and beautiful
Though eagle eyes are the same size and weight as human eyes, an eagle usually weighs around 10 pounds. Comparatively, an eagle’s eyes are huge.
Many creatures, including birds, have droplets of oildispersed into their cone photoreceptors in hues that filter and enhance color.
Birds, in particular, boast stunningly pigmented drops of oil in shades of red and purple.
These droplets intercept light, modifying its intensity and spectrum, and may protect the eyes from free-radical damage. At least one sunglasses manufacturer, Eagle Eyes, claims to have adapted insights from these findings into their products. 

John 14:17
The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.

Eagles can see stunning colors we can’t

1 Peter 1:22
Since by your obedience to the Truth through the [Holy] Spirit you have purified your hearts for the sincere affection of the brethren, [see that you] love one another fervently from a pure heart.

Hodos says many birds see more short- and long-wave light than we do — further into the red range at one end of the color spectrum, and all the way into the ultraviolet range at the other.
“They see colors as more vivid than we do,” he says. “They can discriminate more between shades. And they see ultraviolet light, but we have no idea what it looks like to them.”
All we know, he says, is that they see an absolutely beautiful world and that color differentiation is one of their great visual strengths.

Psalms 37:34
Wait for and expect the Lord and keep and heed His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land; [in the end] when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait upon God get fresh strength.
They spread their wings and soar like eagles,
They run and don't get tired,
they walk and don't lag behind