This homily was delivered on 31 March 2014 on John 4:43-54.![miracle39[1]](https://pinsoflight.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/miracle391.jpg)
While this Gospel story transpires after our Lord’s encounter with the Samaritan woman, I can’t help but read this in the context of yesterday’s gospel on the healing of the blind man.
This reflection is on the healing of the blind man in John 9:1-41.
There is something awesome, strange, and sad about this story of our Lord’s healing of the blind man. It’s a very special miracle for a couple of reasons.
First of all, it is one of our Lord’s most astonishing healing miracle. The man had been born blind, so this was a most important moment in this one person’s life–someone who had never seen anything all his life, who probably did not even have a grasp of the concept of colors, and now for the very first time, was going to see!