So many things can make us blind: wounds from the past that occlude a clear perception of facts in the present … inattentiveness to prayer … being in league with lies of the world about how worthless we are, how we don’t matter. Servant of God Romano Guardini, reflecting on spiritual blindness, comments that the spiritually blind are “those who realize that with all their earthly insight and knowledge they stand in the dark before the divine, utterly incapable of comprehending the essential.” They are “those who in God’s presence still cling to their earthly point of view, their earthly knowledge, earthly conception of justice, naively attempting to measure even the divine by their own standards.” One of the “great” Gospels we will hear this Lent-the healing of the man born blind ( Jn 9:1-41)-offers an apt occasion for us to take stock of our need to be healed of our own spiritual blindness. Hull (+2015) wrote: “What matters is not that I am blind, but that I am known and that I am led by the hand, and that my life, whether sighted or blind, is full of praise.” Such incredible faith and conviction! In Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness, the author John M. Some years ago, I read a powerful book about a professor who went blind in his 40s. Would you consider donating just $10, so we can continue creating free, uplifting content? Make a Lenten donation here
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