Sunday Reflection (March 19, 2023)
Our Scripture Reading from John’s Gospel (9:1-41) was about a blind man and Jesus. In the days of Jesus, it was easy to find a reason not to help the blind because it was a punishment from God because of some sin the blind or his/her parents had committed. For Jesus said it was an opportunity to do good. He healed the man of blindness, and gradually the man, formerly blind, received spiritual insight, yet the religious leaders found fault.
Have you ever found fault with a good deed done with good intentions? The opportunities to do good are always before us, but what opportunities to do good have you neglected to do because you were not open to the possibility of making a difference for the good? What opportunities to do good have you passed because you exploited the faults and failures of someone needing help? When opportunities to make a difference for the good come before us may we seize the opportunity that God has given us.
