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Good morning. Just over a year ago I had cataracts removed

The most amazing thing is that I can now see colours in a wonderfully fresh way. Because I did have a problem with distinguishing between blue, green and brown as anyone who ever closely examined my socks might just have noticed. I was in St Patrick鈥檚 Church of Ireland Cathedral in Armagh and was struck by the magnificent colours in the stained glass windows- particularly the purples for when I鈥檇 last looked at those windows, it wasn鈥檛 purple I saw at all bit a sort of unattractive brown. 听

Now I wouldn鈥檛 want to exaggerate the effects cataracts had on my vision and I could never have considered myself blind and I do realise that many people are living with problems I鈥檝e never had. And yet I find myself having a deeper appreciation of a sentence in John鈥檚 Gospel, when a blind man healed by Jesus said 鈥�Though I was blind now I see.鈥�

But as so often in the Fourth Gospel 鈥� those words 鈥�Though I was blind now I see.鈥� have a much deeper meaning than simply acknowledging that a man has had his physical sight restored- a deeper meaning suggesting a fresh vision- and not just in physical sight

For Christ offers and brings is fresh insight. When we have faith in him, he requires and can give us a new way of looking at things- at the things that happen to us, at our attitudes to money and political events; a new attitude to the people around us- those who are closest to us; the people we only come into slight contact with; and a fresh view of ourselves our lives, our behaviour and views.

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Lord help us to see with new eyes, open to the light and vision Christ gives. Amen