We can see things moving faster than light

imagine a robot travelling over a stretchy membrane that is ever expanding.  Eventually the robot approaches an area of the membrane that is not moving faster than the robot is able to move relative to the surface it moves on  (closer to the center), and so it makes sense that eventually the progress improves toward the center despite the ever expanding membrane.  I love you Physics Girl.  Not because I have male urges (I do because you're so cute but that's not appropriate), but that your content really inspires girls to be curious about physics.  I love physics, but I can't get my girls interested despite how much I talk about it.  I think it's important for young girls to see that this is not just a "guy" thing.

So, just to "expand" on the theory, If you can imagine that as the universe expands, the rate of expansion closer to where we are will decrease.  In other words, the speed of recession of points of space distant from us will decrease in proportion to their relative distance from the edge of the universe, and eventually become less than the speed of light.  This means that light waves that were moving away from us could eventually move toward us.