No. No one is blind.
Today’s sermon comes from the story of two of Jesus’ disciples mournfully going to Emmaus. We don’t know why they were going there, but we know they encountered a person on the trip who asked them what they were talking about. They rhetorically asked the person if they were the only stranger in Jerusalem who hadn’t heard about the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. They explained what had happened, and then the stranger, who was the Christ, explained how everything they said had to happen. To cut a short story even shorter, when they convinced Jesus to come and have a meal with them, after Jesus broke and blessed the bread, they recognized him, at which point he vanished. It’s an interesting story. If you want to read it, click here. It isn’t very long.
So why the sermon title about no one being blind? I wanted to think about what it means to see. It is pretty obvious that we don’t actively process everything in our visual field, or we would go mad. So what can we do about increasing our ability to see? I think that is what the sermon is about, learning to see. If we remember that Jesus told his followers, and thus us also, that whatever we do for other people, especially the poor and oppressed, we are doing for him; we get to see Jesus, see the Christ on a regular basis.
As always, let me know what you think as you are inclined and able.
Blessings,
