Country of the Blind

Gospel: Luke 6: 39-42

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."  We human beings continually lift up people as imperfect as ourselves and make them beacons and guides.  Like shooting stars we gaze upon them, but just as quickly they lose their light, another false image we create for ourselves in our never ending quest for illumination, forgetting we have only One who provides us with illumination and One alone we should follow.

This quest for light may be likened to being outside in the dark of night.  No moon or stars illuminate the night, and we look feverishly for some light to guide us.  In our midst are fireflies whose brief bursts of light captivate us.  We chase them, follow them about in vain for some guidance amid the darkness.  But their light leads us nowhere and the darkness remains. 

But our task in the darkness is not to chase about for fleeting lights that lead nowhere.  Our task is to wait in calm and patience for the sun to rise, the light that will illuminate our entire world and make all things clear, the only light capable of such illumination.  Even in the darkest night we know that dawn will come, we know that God is present, and that God is love.