Let me see again

Morning: Psalms 137:1-9, 144; Exodus 10:21-11:8; 2 Corinthians 4:13-18

Evening: Psalms 42, 43; Mark 10:46-52

Blind Bartimaeus asks Jesus, “Let me see again.” Once, he could see. You wonder whether this story is about humanity becoming blind? The shock of coronavirus is partly that a terrible disease can jump the species barrier from animals to humans. I just watched a video clip of Jane Goodall, famed gorilla researcher. She said our desire to commercialize everything has brought us too close to the wild animals of the Earth. We have lost sight of the appropriate separateness of species. As we move on from this crisis, we may also pray, “Let us see again.”