blind – 300 words a day

Advent 14: Blind

Jesus had a deep affection for blind guys. That may be an over-generalization, it may be reading too much into the biblical text. What would be more accurate is that he healed several. Sometimes he touched them. Sometimes he spit on the ground to make mud and rubbed it on their eyes. Sometimes he said […]

shut up

My parents never let us say “shut up.” At one point in our history, one of us three would say “shut up…your mouth” as a way to avoid the inevitable look of disapproval. “Shut up” is pretty much what a crowd of people was saying to two men who couldn’t see. The men were by […]

into the house

Two blind guys knew Jesus healed blind guys. They followed him. They called to him, “have mercy on us.” We don’t know how far the followed him. We don’t know where they started following him. We know that they were with him after he left the house of the formerly dead daughter. Whether they had […]