The Gospel for the
day is about a blind man who asks Jesus to have pity on him. Part of the drama
here is that for some reason, it wasn't his place to do so and therefore people
around him were rebuking him.
I've been thinking a
lot recently about this concept of place or social location and who gets to
speak and who is expected to remain silent. And here in the Gospel, the blind
man was out committing some sort of social sin by calling out to Jesus.
Maybe Jesus heard
the blind man the first time around but he wanted to see if the blind man would
persist. And the blind man did persist despite the people telling him to shush.
So Jesus stopped, healed the blind man and said that it was the blind man's faith
that healed him.
Faith in what? Faith
that Jesus could and wanted to heal, yes. But maybe also faith that God was
accessible to anyone and everyone, even those whom society considered to be
speaking out of turn.
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