Reading: John 9:1-41
“As he
passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.”
John 9:1
According to many New Testament scholars, the writer of the
gospel of John (probably writing about 90-100 CE) originally ended the gospel
immediately after the story of Thomas and the Risen Christ in Chapter 20, and
concluded with these words, “Now Jesus did many other things in the presence of
his disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written that
you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that you may have
life in his name" (John 20:30-31). Seeing and believing. Seeing and
believing. The disciples at the Cana
wedding, the woman at the well, the people who were fed by the five loaves, and
now the man born blind. St. Augustine writes in one sermon that the world is
the blind man. Seeing and believing. What are we not seeing? To what are we
blind? Is Christ truly our light? How does the light of Christ change how we
see?
O God
of light, open our eyes that we may see ourselves, the world, and you, more
clearly. Amen
- Take a walk. Notice shadows,
Give thanks.
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