Lent 4 (A) + True sight + 3.26.17
(from christianitytoday.com) M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( 1 Samuel 16:1-13 ; Psalm 23 ; Ephesians 5:8-14 ; John 9:1-41 ) The man answered, “Here is an astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will. Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to teach us?” And they drove him out. (John 9:30-34) Today’s gospel deals, in part, with the kind of sight that matters, and about receiving knowledge from unexpected people. In a book I am reading, called The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a blind young man named Tin Win’s Buddhist teacher U May has become blind. But they get into a discussion about how he doesn’t see himself as blind. Their dialog goes l...