Seeing

33rd Week in Ordinary Time - Monday (19 November 2018)

Revelation 1:1-4, 2:1-5. Psalm 1:1-4,6. Luke 18:35-43.

“Sir, let me see again.”

Today we have Luke’s version of the story of the blind man, whom Mark calls Bar-Timaeus (i.e., the son of Timaeus). The story is situated in Jericho, a very ancient city, located about 8 kms west of the River Jordan and about 25 kms north-east of Jerusalem. Jericho was the last main stop for Jesus before arriving in Jerusalem. When Jesus asks, “What do you want me to do for you?” the man responds, “Lord, please let me see.” Jesus immediately acts, “Receive your sight. Your faith has made you well, has healed and made you whole.”

Spirituality is about seeing. It’s not about achieving or earning something. It’s about relationship and not about results. Once you see, the rest follows. It’s like you are in the river. The river is already flowing. You don’t have to push the river, because you are in it. The life is lived within us, and we learn how to say yes to that life. Trust the flow, trust the life that is within you. Your life is not about you, but you are about Life. “I live now not I, but Another Life lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). Life is so large and deep and spacious that it even includes its opposite, death.

We have to learn to see what is there. We need to learn “how” to see. Not what to see. The point is to see what is already there. We need to learn how to see whatever is there. We don’t dictate to reality, but we accept whatever comes to us. We don’t divide the field. Prayer and spirituality are training you to see the overlooked wholeness in all things.

So we need to get rid of all illusions so that we can be truly present to reality. To life in itself. In that way, we can see what is, see who we are, and see what is happening.

People who do not believe in miracles never see miracles. We need to train our eyes to see. We need the light of the Holy Spirit. We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are. So we need to cleanse the lens from the inside. We need help from the inside, from the One who dwells inside. That’s why our prayer is, “Lord, let me see.” Prayer is not one of those 10,000 things, but it is by which you see those 10,000 things. Everything becomes enchanting with true sight.

We always become what we behold. We become what we eat; we become what we read; we become what we take in; we become what we see. I am now a part of what I am trying to see. Our perceptions are nothing but the projections of my depth – both conscious and “unconscious.” I see what I project on to reality. Therefore, by spiritual seeing, everything in the universe becomes a mirror. We are immersed into this Fuller Reality, we are fused into grace, we are stuck into this Consciousness. I allow the divine in me to take control of all the reality around me. Less of me, more of Him.