THAT I MAY SEE

Monday of week 33 of Ordinary Time

Today’s readings
Rev 1:1-4, 2:1-5; Ps 1:1-6; Luke 18:35-43
 Then Jesus said to a certain blind man, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well” (Luke 18:42).

A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass. He does not need it. There are people who have the insight without sight.  We call them blind men, but spiritually they have eyes that can see.  There are people who have eyes to see but have no insight. This inner blindness is pitiable.  “The ability to see shows a person the way, says the Kenyan proverb. The Latin proverb says, “The eyes are blind when the mind is elsewhere.” The blind man in today’s Gospel had the eyes of the mind working perfectly. He greeted Jesus with the Messianic title: Son of God. He was aware of Jesus’ title. Moreover, the blind man had the eyes of faith. He was able to see because “his faith deserved it”. He had the eyes of faith. He had the physical blindness but not spiritual blindness. Jesus told him your “faith has made you well.”  There is a certain Blind Ploughman who acknowledged the providence of God saying, “God, who took away my eyes that my soul might see!”

Dear reader! Own this prayer, “Lord that I may see.”  To pick sense out of nonsense, you need the eyes of the mind. Pray, “Lord that I may see.” With the eyes of the mind you can see the solutions and ways of solving the problem. With this in mind pray, “Lord that I may see.” In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. With this in mind pray, “Lord that I may see.” “Your eye is the lamp of your body, when your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light” (Luke 11: 25). With this in mind pray, “Lord that I may see.” “The heart’s eyes see many things,” says the Swahili proverb. With this in mind pray, “Lord that I may see.”  The Kenyan sages said, “The eyes which you cure will one day look at you with envy.” With this in mind pray, “Lord that I may see.”