Born of God

Born of God
1 John 3.1-10

There are many stories about people who are blind who then receive the gift of sight. One of the most remarkable, of course, is found in chapter 9 of John’s gospel, where Jesus heals a man who had been born blind. But there are plenty more such stories in recent history. One I heard not long ago concerned a man who had gone blind in early adult life. He had then, subsequently, got married and had children. They could all see him, but he had never set eyes on them. Then, one day, the medical breakthrough came, the operation was a success, and he could see at last. What an amazing moment! To come face to face, eye to eye, with the people he had loved but never seen. There is something transformative about eye contact. People who spend a lot of time looking at one another sometimes come to resemble each other. Perhaps this is because they are instinctively copying one another’s facial expressions until their muscles and tissue begin to be reshaped in that way. Imagine beginning that process at last after years of love which had been expressed through words and touch but never before through sight...

Taken from Early Christian Letters For Everyone by Tom Wright