Now I See
John 9:1–41 There is a rhythm to the church year that helps us locate ourselves in God’s big story. As we stand on the threshold of Lent, many congregations mark this Sunday as the day of Jesus’ transfiguration—a moment of dazzling light, of glory revealed on a mountaintop. But John’s Gospel, as it often does, takes us in a different direction. Instead of Jesus shining like the sun before Peter, James, and John, we get another kind of transfiguration: the transformation of a man who has never once seen light at all. And in that transformation, everyone else in the story is changed too—or at least invited to be. Because sight changes us. To see anew, to truly see, reshapes how we move through the world, how we understand God, how we understand one another, and how we understand ourselves. The question this text puts before us is not simply what did the man born blind see? But: What do we refuse to see? What truth have we avoided because it requires something of us?...