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This week the news story that grabbed my attention was that of a 39 year old lady called Joanne Milne, a Gateshead woman who had been deaf all her life. But thanks to cochlear implants she was able to hear. Her mother filmed the moment when the news was broken to her and the tears that flowed when she heard for the first time. It was a moment that filled everyone who saw it with tears too. In the interview afterwards she spoke excitedly about the sounds around, the same sounds which we take for granted. She marvelled at the birds singing and the wind rustling in the trees.
The blind man in the gospel has been rejected because he was born that way, he must have deserved it or his family did, was the attitude to disability or sickness. Jesus cures his blindness and attempts to cure the blindness of the Pharisees who have a disability of their own without realising it. They are blind to a fellow human being and his need. They are blind to love and blind to God and his command to love neighbour regardless of who that neighbour is; friend enemy, part of the family or outside of family, ill or well, sinner or just, all God’s people have worth.
The first reading encourages us to listen. Man judges by appearance but God judges the heart. The motives are what God sees. We can be so obsessed in our throw away culture with looks, status, wealth, and if we are, it is normally at the expense of others.
The gratitude of the man who is cured is echoed in the story in the news this week of Joanne Milne. It is good news! Sometimes we can become immune to such things! Let us make a real effort this lent to rediscover the wonder of God’s love in our lives, so that we can be cured of the blindness that stops us from rejoicing at good news. Or makes us stop hearing the good that surrounds us. Let us be cured of prejudice and obsessions with looks and status, rather let us realise that God looks at the heart and wants us to turn those hearts towards him.
