Each day Brother Matthew leads a one hour reflection on scripture and the theme of solidarity and trust. Day One we began with the story of blind Bartimaeus in Mark's gospel (10:46-52). He reminded us that this blind man was excluded, poor, and unimportant because of his disability ... and yet it was not the restoration of his sight that liberated Bartimaeus. With a trust that cries out to God, his healing began when he recognized who he was and what he needed from the Lord. And so it is with our own healing. The story asks us to acknowledge our own blindness and when we do we will also be liberated from the confines of who we have been and into the new reality of who we can be. Trust recognizes things for what they are yet leads us into a new future.
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