Loud people often make other people nervous. In this week's gospel, we have one loud person and a lot of nervous people.JESUS, help ME! the blind beggar blares out.
Shhhhhhhh! lots of proper people insist.
Yet the people who remember and pass this story on to us seem, in hindsight at least, to apprecriate this man's over-the-top energy (look at all the 'big energy' words in these few sentences).
A question that seems really pregnant to me is, What is it about this blind man's exuberant need that is good news for the rest of us?
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In his exuberant need, this loud man shows his faith in being heard. Too often we do not feel comfortable using our own voices. Those who show need "out loud" are showing us the side of ourselves that also needs to cry out... but does not. Why not? Where is our faith that our own need, our own voice will be heard? Jesus tells us to become like little children, which this man does in his own way, yet often society frowns on such forthrightness.
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