Sometimes we contract spiritual blindness. Here we confuse our little ‘god’ image with the great God, the Holy Trinity and Wholly Other, who is beyond our knowing.  

Today’s Gospel provides us with a cure for spiritual blindness. Here, a blind man is brought to Jesus.  He relinquishes himself to Jesus who progressively gives him sight.

What can we do to allow Jesus to cure our blindness?

We can relinquish ourselves to Jesus.  Relinquish our desire for control and hold our god image humbly and lightly. We can cultivate an awareness that the world is pregnant with God and an expectancy that in any moment God might burst into our awareness. 

It’s a bit like preparing for bird watching. We can’t control the positioning of the bird. We can only place ourselves in spaces where the bird might be and wait with expectancy. Often nothing very much happens. Occasionally, a bird will burst into awareness and it’s awesome.

Do we have spiritual blindness? Perhaps some bird watching is in order. 

Lord, today help me to hold my god image humbly and lightly and to live with awareness and expectancy. Amen.

by Deacon Paul Jensen