The gospel reading today in the lectionary is the one where Jesus restores sight to the blind beggar. Here are some messages I see in this story.
*that we like to blame people or their families for what we see as their misfortune.
* that our difficulties in life are stages on which the Mercy of God dances.
* sometimes it is we who get to show the Mercy of God to the world.
*when we are more attached to religion than to God, we can become blind to God's work around us.
A prayer for today:
Dear God,
Help me to understand your great mercy. And even if I can't understand it, please give me your strength to dance it out into the world. Help me to not be so judgemental of others. For the times when I have been blind to your work in the world, forgive me. Spread your mud over MY eyes, that I might wash and see you.
In Jesus' name,
AMEN
the image is a cross stitch pattern that is titled "Jesus healing the blind man", but perhaps should have been something like "Jesus poking out the eye of a little boy"
Oh, it's a cross stitch.
I thought, perhaps, you'd got a new tattoo.
Posted by: MadPriest | September 07, 2006 at 08:15 AM
so FUNNY madpriest!
So wonderful sarcastic l. a prayer that was much needed for me today. BTW - check out church marketing sucks today, the free t-shirts thing. find it here, http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2006/09/free_tshirts.html.
Sorry for the long link, typad is not accepting my html code.
Posted by: Swandive | September 07, 2006 at 02:42 PM
Gotta love those Precious Moments.
"Please, sir -- may I have another?"
Posted by: LutheranChik | September 15, 2006 at 07:45 AM
i laughed so much at this and keep telling people about it ... if you want to make some serious point in future avoid such funny lines :)
Posted by: steve foster | September 20, 2006 at 10:40 PM