Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar

Mark For Everyone

MARK 10.46–52
Jesus Heals a Blind Beggar...

...It took some weeks of persuasion before they came to see me. The grown-up son was desperate to get his ailing and depressed mother into some kind of a home where she would be properly cared for. As long as she lived with him he couldn’t do his own work or have any private life. She swamped him with demands for help and attention. We looked at several options. There were small communities, large communities, nursing homes, sheltered housing. Any of them would have been real possibilities. The mother, though, saw some flaw in each of them which became, to her, fatal. None of them would do. After an hour she turned to the son with triumph gleaming in her eyes. ‘There you are!’ she said. ‘He can’t do anything for us.’

But the truth was that she didn’t want anybody to do any- thing for her. She wanted to go on being a victim, putting moral pressure on her son (and everybody else in sight) to feel sorry for her...

Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright