God is a God of surprises! During our Lenten Journey we are invited to look deeper into ways of understanding God and self – The invitation is to Journey to the Heart.

In today’s reading of the man born blind, we read “I was blind and now I see” Are our eyes open to Christ in our life so that we may be more alert to the movement of God’s Spirit throughout the day. Like the man born blind we do not normally receive a divine flash of inspiration but struggle to a deeper understanding of God and God’s plan for us. Each of us are invited to pray – Who do you want me to be? What do you want me to do? What are some new pathways all of us have to explore both individually and as a church?

In the story of the many born blind we hear that those who should have rejoiced in his cure ostracized him from society. The blind man encountered numerous resistances and rejections. He may have been tempted to welcome blindness again!

And we, seeing in a new way, will we encounter resistance and rejection? In our nation and our Church we hear the cries to return to what was familiar. We know that what may have been fruitful in the past cannot answer the many challenges we as a church meet today.

Where are we on our journey of the heart that is calling us to meet the resistances and find anew? “I was blind and now I see.”