Monday, March 23, 2015
John 9:1-17
The people in this story have a lot of questions. Why are things the way they are? And then after the healing, is this really the same guy? And then just beyond our portion the parents are brought in: is that definitely your kid? Jesus’s response to the question about why the man was born blind does give an answer, though it’s an answer that doesn’t fit into the people’s system. It doesn’t confirm them in laying blame. To Jesus, it seems that the circumstances that have brought all of these people together -- the bad things that have happened to a good person -- are quite simply an opportunity to do good, to support one another. Imagine the good that we could do if we could put time, money, and energy into feeding people and developing communities, rather than into perpetuating the cycle of greed and violence that characterizes our world? What if we more consistently modeled a way of love and acceptance, rather than judgement and labeling?
- Matthew Kieswetter
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