I learned today that a friend of mine is soon to be baptised. This is wonderful news and brought joy and light into an otherwise ordinary day.
She said, in part, "I now "get it" ... it was like a blurry image coming into crystal clarity in one instant after 31 years."
Mark tells of a time when Jesus came to Bethsaida and encountered a blind man who begged him to touch him. Jesus led him outside the village and did a very strange thing to our way of thinking, he spit in the man's eyes. Having done this he asked the man, "Do you see anything?"
The man look up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around."
Mark writes, "Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eye. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly."
When we place ourselves in the path of Jesus and are willing to call out to him and ask for his touch, we, too, can see clearly.
Just as my friend now does.
Enjoy your coffee.
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