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SUNDAY, April 3
John 9:1-41. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.
Reading scripture, meditating on it, maybe even testing it, and then writing about it is beneficial to me. I hope it is equally helpful to you. The process is illuminating and sometimes, ironically, blinding again at the same time. From blindness to sight to a clarity that is blinding at times. What a trip.
One could see my life as a great life. Most of the time, I do—fantastic partner, wonderful parents, loving family, steady job, beautiful home, and two dogs and five cats that are absolutely the best on the planet. All this for a guy who literally had nothing, not even his physical freedom, twenty years ago.
And yet, that is not enough to enable me to see clearly. No more than prison bars could dull my spirit’s vision can the material comforts of modern life make it clear.
Sometimes I forget this and begin to think that things and situations can make me happy. I scratch my head, puzzled and upset at myself for walking around angry at nothing in particular and wondering where that hole in my gut comes from and what will make it go away.
And then I remember, and that itself is blinding. But maybe it’s the tears.
PRAY for the Diocese of Multan (Pakistan)
Ps 23; 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Ephesians 5:8-14
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Without Christ's help -- as with the blind man -- we'll never be able to see clearly, or understand the "why"....