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As Jesus and his disciples were going into Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch the man.
Jesus took him by the hand and led him out of the village, where he spit into the man's eyes. He placed his hands on the blind man and asked him if he could see anything.
The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."
Mark 8:22-24 CEV
This man's experience with Jesus seems quite different to some of the other people we have met in Mark's gospel.
Before he met Jesus he already had a community of people who wanted to help him.  When I read these accounts I'm tempted to see me in the story, as the person in the middle who's life is changed by the transforming touch of Jesus.
But if I place myself as one of the Blind Man's support team, one of many who are advocating for, working for solutions for someone else, it chamges the view...
We can see this man's team waiting in the village, hoping, praying for a miracle.
They may be the people who look like trees walking around, pacing, worrying, hoping...
Maybe the invitation in this story is to be the advocate, the one who encourages others towards Jesus, towards healing, towards hope?
What do you think?
#gospelofMark #GoodNews 
#invitation #weareinaBigStory 
#makeroom

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