The man went and washed - and saw.  

Soon the town was buzzing. 

His relatives and those who year after year had seen him as a blind man begging were saying, 

"Why, isn't this the man we knew, who sat here and begged?"

Others said, 

"It's him all right!"

But others objected, 

"It's not the same man at all. It just looks like him."

He said, "It's me, the very one."

John 9:6-9 MSG

Something so fundamental had shifted in this person that those who knew him didn't recognise him.

It's easy to focus on the transformation story, of the person who met Jesus, but there's also the story here of the person who is blind is also unseen. 

How often do I "not see" people? 

Put a label on them, walk past, not "see"?

Is this another glimpse of heaven when we'll see people differently, without the things that have held them down, held them back?

When we'll see all the potential built in expressed in some new way...I wonder if I looked for it, created space for it, I'd see more of what this man's neighbours saw in him after he'd been with Jesus.

#seethepotential

#ditchthelabels

#lovepeople