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Finding God in ALL things
Monday, March 30, 2015
Monday of Holy Week
Isaiah 42:6, Psalm 27:1
I, the Lord, have called you … You are my light and my salvation.
The Blind Café. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. A meal is served in the TOTAL darkness by blind servers, and in the dark after the meal there is a question/answer session with those blind servers. The Blind Café will be in Austin April 28-30 this year.
Two hours of blindness will give me a much different experience with the light. Right? The Blind Café “is designed to help you feel more alive, awake, present and connected to your world.”
Jesus came to bring light. He is my light and my salvation. And he intends me to carry the light somewhere beyond my own garden. I am part of the people of whom Isaiah wrote, “I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind …”
I can receive this commission with hubris or with humility. My sight can make me proud, but my blindness makes me humble. Once I could not see, and now I can. A little. One step at a time. For now.
My good friend, who has given her life for God’s work in quiet ways, is having trouble with her eyes. They are cloudier every day. In a week or so she’ll hear a diagnosis from her doctor.
I asked her, “Are you worried?” I should have known better. “No,” she said. “I know my sight is a gift. If I lose it, I want to give it graciously back to God.”
I know she can do this because she lives in light that cannot be quenched. Dylan Thomas wrote, “Do not go gently into that good night … rage, rage against the dying of the light!” But he spoke not of his eyes but his spirit, his father’s spirit, and all the fathers that went before him. Mothers too. Sisters. Brothers. All the every-aged children of the world. We are all “set as a covenant for the people …”
For each other you bring us into the world, Lord, and for each other we live our lives. Lord, I believe; help my unbelief. Lord, I see; free me from my blindness. Lord, I am free; free me from my captivity. Walk before me, so I can walk. Following you, I have nothing to fear.
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