Looking Over Mother's Shoulder

By Bill Henshaw

I invite you on a journey of love and fun while you observe vision development from birth to the golden years, but with a biblical perspective. The Lord continually looks over mother's shoulder as He follows her Junior and Missy as they are brought up to see like Jesus. Most don't realize that vision is developed and can be both remediated and e

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Jul 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781647739867

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Looking Over Mother’s Shoulder

by Bill Henshaw, OD, FCOVD

Looking Over Mother’s Shoulder

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Copyright © 2021 by Bill Henshaw

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Acknowledgments

The Real Author: Holy Spirit

Through my wife Judy’s encouragement, before each sit down at the computer, I prayed for guidance from the Holy Spirit. Without both, I would be lost.

Endorsements

Looking Over Mother’s Shoulder is an education in spiritual development through the visual system. Vision and light are intertwined through the readings of the Bible and through the works of healings by our Lord Jesus.

It is fascinating how Dr. Henshaw has integrated his understanding of vision and the word and actions of God from conception through life. It reminds me of Jeremiah 1:5: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Dr. Henshaw views all individuals in this manner. We are all gifts from God. Dr. Henshaw sees those gifts.

In my vision therapy room, there is a poster from Matthew 6:22: The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. By using the principles of developmental/behavioral optometry and the guidance of our Lord, Jesus Christ, we are able to provide vision care from the youngest to the oldest patients we have. Dr. Henshaw sees God in all people, and no one is a stranger in his office.

This is a must-read for all parents to understand the crucial development of their child. Parents are the most important people in a child’s life. To understand God and vision in the development of a child is all in this book, Looking Over Mom’s Shoulder.

—Diane Serex-Dougan, OD, FCOVD

The sincerity of Looking Over Mother’s Shoulder proves that its author, Bill Henshaw, is an eye doctor who loves his God, his calling, and his patients. Henshaw, a born-again Christian, shares how God, life, and vision cannot be separated, how spiritual soundness and visual soundness are linked, and how even something as simple as the placement of a child’s crib and the voices of his or her mother and father can have an effect on the child’s future seeing. As Henshaw follows the development of vision through the flash of light at conception, and the journey through God’s light during birth, infancy, early childhood, school, the teenage years, and even adulthood, he shares some of the miracles created by his God-inspired, fivefold approach to vision. Including both the Scripture and science of vision, Looking Over Mother’s Shoulder is the perfect book for those who wish to return to the God-given goodness of seeing in order to flourish in the world while beholding the wonder of God’s creation.

—Dr. David Cook, Author of When Your Child Struggles

A must-read for new parents. Looking Over Mother’s Shoulder by Dr. Bill Henshaw does a beautiful job of blending scripture, vision, and the developmental process. He takes you through the parent’s experience and thought process from birth through adulthood. Finally, he shows how vision can be affected throughout the process and what can be done to aid and prevent vision problems. He discusses how to use the five tools: vision hygiene, lens therapy, light therapy, vision therapy, and vision processing therapy to guide a child’s development. As a fellow developmental optometrist, I highly recommend Looking Over Mother’s Shoulder.

—Brenda Henikie Montecalvo, OD, FCOVD

Author of Visual Secrets for School Success: Read Faster,

Write Better, Master Math and Spelling

Preface

I am a born-again Christian. Jesus is my Savior who guides me in this life and assures my place in heaven. God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus are One. My belief does not make me better than others but reveals my limitations as God gets me through life. The Bible is the inherent Word of God and is interpreted literally. There is a relationship between science and the Bible. The Word (Jesus) created the world and everything in it in six days. Declaring it good, God rested on the seventh. The Bible ages the world around ten thousand years. Scientists with unreliable carbon dating assume millions. That is a grand assumption of Uniformitarianism. It assumes the natural laws operating in our present day have always operated in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.

Uniformitarianism ignores the great flood. Then the one landmass, Pangaea, was split into many sections through volcanoes and deluges of water falling from the sky and resulted in continents. Masses of land moved faster than it ever had before. The Grand Canyon was formed by a volcano. The river came after. The recent earthquake on Mt. Rainier formed massive changes in seconds and created coal at the same rate.

Many trained in the same academic scientific world as me find these beliefs heresy. Yes, heresy. The truly scientific realize none of us were alive at the creation of the world. Whether we believe old or young earth, it is theory, not fact, and is based on faith. Faith is the substance of religion and also science. Some may ask, how could any scientist believe in Christianity? Let me give you a brief list of scientists who believe in God, and the majority were Christian:

1. Nicholas Copernicus (Christian), 2. Sir Francis Bacon (Christian), 3. Johannes Kepler (Christian), 4. Galileo Galilei (Christian), 5. Rene Descartes (Christian), 6. Isaac Newton (devoutly religious), 7. Robert Boyle (Christian), 8. Michael Faraday (Christian), 9. Gregor Mendel (Christian), 10. William Thomson Kelvin (Christian), 11. Max Planck (Christian), 12. Albert Einstein. (A famous saying of his was Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.)

Pastor Jack Hibbs stated, The laws of God are the laws of science. He further warns that if you have views not based on either faith or science, you will be misguided. Jack, through Matthew 16:1-3, points out the Pharisees and Sadducees were an example:

The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He replied, When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

Jack Hibbs, as a pastor, believes science and the Bible are compatible. I, as a scientist, hold the same belief. Just as the twelve above were comfortable with their faith and science, so am I.

Eye and Me

Why am I a developmental optometrist, not the mainstream of my profession? I had vision problems