There was once a master who asked his students, "How does one know if the sun has truly risen?" One answered "When a person from the horizon can distinguish a stone from a rock?" The master replied, "No, not yet." Another answered "When from the horizon, one can distinguish between a guava and a chico tree." The mastered replied "No, not yet." And the other students gave different answers to which the master did not agree. In frustration, the students begged the master to give them the right answer. The master replied "When from the horizon, one can identify a brother or a sister among his neighbors, then we know that the light has truly dawned on us."
Sight is a great gift from God. It enables us to see the beauty of God's creation. If one would be asked which sense would one want to lose lastly, he would probably answer sight more than hearing, smelling, tasting, and sensing. Life is much more difficult if we lose the sense of sight. Left in darkness, the rest of the senses are almost rendered useless since the person may be immobilized by his blindness. Thus, the blind man in the gospel (Mark 8:22-26) begged Jesus to restore his sight. And He did. Jesus did not stop healing the blind man until he was able to see persons and not simply creatures resembling trees. Sight is truly restored when one sees the truth and not only a resemblance of it; when what is in the mind corresponds to that of reality. We know that one can truly see if one sees what God wants us to see. And God wants us to see the goodness of His creation for through it, one can perceive too the goodness of the Creator. What greater sight can be compared with that!? Only then can one rightly claim that he could see when he had seen the Lord, the healer of spiritual blindness which hinders people to see Him.
How, then, can we truly see? How can we let the Light from on high dawn upon us? After forty days and forty nights of rain and flood, Noah was 'blinded' for a while. From his ark, he did know whether it was already safe to go outside. Though he may have seen the water subsided, he was not certain whether he could safely step on the ground that had softened due to the flood, or whether vegetation outside his ark exists to nourish them and his animals. In his ark, Noah was blind from what was happening to the earth. A dove enabled him to see beyond his ark. The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Thus, it can be said that in the blindness of Noah, it was God who guided him and brought a piece of olive branch that caused peace and jubilation to Noah and to those in the ark. It is through the Lord that one can truly see.
When in our situation, we fail to see the goodness in life, may we seek the Lord who is the true healer of our body and spirit. Like Noah, may the moment come to our life when we too may offer a sacrifice pleasing to the Lord, for through His grace, we have seen His kindness.
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