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Theo Tigno•
2/14/2012 1:56 pm
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Wednesday, February 15th 2012 |
Mark 8: 22-26
When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked, "Do you see anything?" Looking up the man replied, "I see people looking like trees and walking." Then he laid hands on the man's eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly. Then he sent him home and said, "Do not even go into the village."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention - for an end to abortion and the use of contraception.
I am a man who makes a lot of mistakes.
Most outsiders would think that a man of faith should be someone who doesn't lose his temper ... doesn't get prideful ... etc.
What makes us different isn't the fact that we don't sin, but the fact that we can receive Christ's forgiveness in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. What makes us different is the fact that we live our lives according to God's ways, which we know through scripture and the Church. What makes us different is knowing that I don't see clearly, but Christ does.
The blind man could have been content with seeing moving trees if he felt that moving trees was all that there was. Christ didn't want him to merely see moving objects; He wanted the blind man to see. As a man who can see, I know that if my eyesight was obscured to just seeing people as moving trees, I wouldn't be able to appreciate the beauty of a delicate rose or the infinite number of the grains of sand on a beach.
There is a great beauty in God's ways, but it takes humility and obedience and accountability to Our Lord who created our eyes that can see, and beauty of nature and love. Take care and God Bless.
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