This is the journey for us to gain spiritual sight. It is already a fruit of our Exodus journey. From the first weeks, we discovered how attached we are to certain kinds of pleasures and preoccupations. What a high priority we give to things that don’t really matter. We are discovering the joy of being a disciple, what it means to pray more deeply, what it means to sacrifice our bodies, what it means to become a brother, a real neighbor to our fraternity, caring for each other like the good Samaritan who encounters the robber’s victim and cares for him along the way. Our eyes are being opened to what really matters, and we are learning to see as Christ sees.Jesus entered into this world to open our eyes, to help us discover that we do have a Father who loves us, who provides for us, and who has great things in store for us. To discover our own dignity even as much as we have failed and gone astray. The Lord sees the saint that we are meant to become. We learn to see how possible it is to be free, free to love and to serve, free to see our brothers and sisters as God sees them, with an infinite dignity. We learn to see with eyes of faith, noticing also the movements of our hearts in prayer, to see that God is really present when we gaze on the Blessed Sacrament, to see that God really speaks when we listen to his word, to see that God loves us personally, when we notice the movements of consolation in our hearts, our hearts gently uplifted in love and set aflame, moved to tears at God’s great love for us. We see what he has done for us as we pray the Stations of the Cross. We see a whole other dimension of life supercharged with divine presence, not simply random events unfolding around us, making our lives simply a cog in the machine or caught up and ground in gears that are beyond our control, but rather a light and a beauty, a song, a movement of love through which all things were made, including each one of us and in which our lives have a purpose.Your friendships, your words and actions, your opportunities for love and service, your sacrifices are not incidental or coincidental. They are meaningful, beautiful, and powerful. Lives are changed when you encounter someone with love. Lives are changed when you pay attention to someone’s needs. Lives are changed when you gaze on your wife or your children and you do it as a father, as a husband who really cares. As you gain greater freedom, as you learn to see according to God’s priorities, God’s values, then you start to manifest God’s presence in this world, and lives are changed.Life is worth living when we learn to see. This man saw. He was able to see Jesus and say, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. The word in Greek for worship is proskunein. It’s also the word for prostrate. The bodily gesture and the meaning of the action, in other words, to prostrate and to worship, are the same word. You can’t do one without the other. And that’s why we involve our bodies in our sacrifices, our fasting. That’s why we involve our bodies in ritual action. That’s why we involve our bodies in our prayer, taking ourselves to a different place. We express our lives through our bodies. Our bodies need to be trained, but our bodies are also good, able to love and worthy of love.Our shophttps://www.redbubble.com/people/Cath...For donations, and show and speaker requests.Email us! catholictt@gmail.comWebsitehttps://www.catholic-table-talk.com/Find our platforms hereRumblehttps://rumble.com/user/CatholicTable...Pintest / catholictt Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3PhYkf8...IHeart Radiohttps://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-ca...Anchorhttps://anchor.fm/catholic-table-talkInstagram @catolictt Facebook @Catholictabletalk X @catholicttpod
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