Reflection on the fourth Sunday of Lent

Our Gospel passage this weekend focuses on Jesus and His encounter with a man born blind. The culture of the day presumed that this blind man was born in sin. In His interaction with the man, Jesus never gave that view any credence. Jesus saw the person as a child of God who deserved to be set free of whatever hindered him from living the kind of life God wants all people to live. Of course, the man’s physical healing was one thing; his new-found ability to see himself for who He is was what was truly life-giving. Let us all come to know Jesus more fully so that we come to know ourselves as we have been created to be(come).