Tag: John 9

  • Lenten Poems – The Blind Will See (22)

    Duccio di Buoninsegna - Healing of the Blind Man
    Duccio di Buoninsegna – Healing of the Blind Man

    Such controversy the teachers of the law got embroiled in over whether the man born blind was actually healed by Jesus. The man knew; his parents didn’t like to say; the religious leaders grew more incensed as Jesus exposed their spiritual blindness.

    What am I – what are you – not seeing today?

    Born Blind

  • Lenten Poems – Came Home Seeing (21)

    Christ and the pauper. Healing of the blind man. 2009. Canvas, oil. 100 x 55. Artist A.N. Mironov.
    Christ and the pauper. Healing of the blind man. 2009. Canvas, oil. 100 x 55. Artist A.N. Mironov.

    Jesus had compassion on those who were limited physically, as we see in his healing the man blind from birth. He doesn’t hold back his grace or love; nor does he amend his answers to the teachers of the law to suit them – as we will see even more tomorrow.

    “I was blind but I washed.” What a testimony of God’s love.

    Blind from birth (1)