St. Nicolai Notes

EXCHANGES ON THE WAY: LENTEN PRAYERS
Day 21: Fourth Friday
Mark 10:46-52

     Jesus, Healer, how sensitive you were to the swirling movements around You. How attuned to the cries of those who were wounded and in need. You welcomed those whom others tried to keep from gaining your attention. You called the sick, injured, and disabled into your presence. You acted with compassion and worked healing without fanfare.
     You gave sight to blind persons. But You also healed the kind of spiritual blindness that kept your disciples setting boundaries around You, or looking for an advantage over one another as You were walking the road to suffering and death.
     Some of us have many blind spots. We do not see You clearly for who you are. We do not see ourselves clearly. We do not comprehend the vulnerability, and even suffering, that You call us to in order that we may extend your healing works. We do not share your vision for creating a world of peace by acting with generous love for our neighbors, and even our enemies. Sometimes our gaze is so thoroughly focused on ourselves that we don't even see our neighbors at all.
     Heal our vision. Enable us to see the world with the compassion that You see it. Then enable us to be agents of your healing, even though we, ourselves, await complete healing at a time that only God knows. Amen.