John 9:1-3 New English Translation (NET Bible)

Healing a Man Born Blind

9 Now as Jesus was passing by he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man or his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

 

 

Blindness and choices …

 

A house of cards it seems again ... constructed by my own imagination

Here and there a card still standing to be blown over by the winds of time

My blindness that somehow was hidden by self dressed up as an illusion

So things appeared better to the mind as some sanity stayed part of mine

 

It seems to turn out that life became a way of constantly hiding from self

Seldom had to face reality as it often appeared and flirted around me

How are these things possible for so long to live an illusion so well?

That self is fully convinced that the world became what I hoped to see

 

Has the day arrived that all will be exposed to many?

Will the self-imposed veil be torn into many pieces?

Will it expose what was hidden in my deeper irony?

Can I face the consequence of my “accumulated” thesis?

 

How will I react as one surprise after the other will surface?

To be exposed for all to see and known in what I failed to do?

Where I paved the foundation for myself and mine to nurture

on what the world had to offer as I was hiding to show “the fool”

 

Jan Wienen