Christ has a way of asking questions that tap gently (or sometimes knock heavily) upon our heart’s door and open it to deep ponderings. Can the blind person guide a blind person? he asked his disciples. Of course, both will fall into a pit. But what does the deeper knocking of that question suggest to us? Perhaps it is an invitation to ask ourselves: Who is leading me? Are we being led by our own blindness or that of others? Christ wants to be our eyes. He wants us to learn to see what he sees in others, in circumstances, in our own selves, in God’s action in life, and in the world. Let’s linger in this moment of prayer and ask him where he wants to heal our blindness.
--Beth Van de Voorde
Image source: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_blind_leading_the_blind#/media/File:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B0_%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%8B%D1%85.jpeg
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