Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Today's text

John 9:4-7

'As long as day lasts we must carry out the work of the one who sent me; the night will soon be here when no one can work. As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world.' Having said this, [Jesus] spat on the ground, made a paste with the spittle, put this over the eyes of the blind man, and said to him, 'Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam' (the name means 'one who has been sent'). So he went off and washed and came back able to see.

Prayer

In seeing you, I see. All else is blindness.

So I look and what do I see? You send a blind man to wash his mud-caked eyes. It is a fitting metaphor for our normal sight. We are blinded by the encrusted accumulation of living, of sighing through the days, of tripping unaware over the wonder of our lives, of failing to reverence the holiness of every face we meet.

The day comes, and we foolishly imagine it is nothing special, not feeling the love that breathes us, not seeing the light in whose illumination all is hope and gift.

You are the light of the world, the light of the soul, the illumination of heart and mind in which we see and know ourselves and peer through the tangled enigmas of our existence to know, finally, that all is well.

You are light, and in you we see who made us and for what we are made. In your illumination, we glimpse the glory that is every human life and life itself. In the warmth of your glowing, we feel the destiny for which you intend us.

So let me look at you, Jesus, and see. All else is blindness.

Pr. David L. Miller