The morning after cataract surgery, I looked out the kitchen window and was astounded to discover that the house next door is actually painted bright white. I’d always thought it was beige!
The hymn Amazing Grace includes this line: “I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.” In scripture, the restoration of sight is often a metaphor for spiritual awakening.
Acts 9 includes a most vivid illustration of this. Saul is struck blind on his way to murder the believers in Damascus. But after his eyesight is miraculously restored, he starts preaching that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Messiah. He saw through the eyes of his heart that he had to change his ways, and he spent the rest of his life proclaiming the Good News.
When we open the eyes of our hearts (see Ephesians 1:17-18), we can see what God wants to show us, what God is calling us to do.
This message is excerpted from “And now I see. What opens your spiritual vision?” by Audrey Novak Riley from the January 31, 2021, blog of the Women of the ELCA. Today we commemorate Lucy, martyr, 304.
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