“Lord, I believe.” John 9:48

To remember what we might learn from the Gospel reading, we have five words from the text beginning with the letter “b:” Birth, blind, beg, began and believe.

Saint John Chapter 9 Verse 9 tells us that as Jesus “walked along, he saw a man blind from birth.” The idea of someone suffering a disability from birth would have been troubling for the religious people at the time, they believed that you got what you deserved, but how could someone deserve something with which they …