To see or not to see...

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 9th week in Ordinary time

June 6, 2023: Tobit 2: 9-14; Mark 12: 13-17

Tobit loses his sight and lives so for four years or so. Even that did not disturb his wife much but the question she asks him, 'where is all your charity?', brings out the crux of the message today. It is truly charity that helps us see persons as they are. In charity we decide whether to see or not, to see or not persons as they are instead of fixing them into the peg holes we have made for each of them. 

Judgements are the first enemies of charity and that is why the saintly Mother Teresa made that statement: if you judge, you have no time to love! Inability to see, is in fact a lack of openness caused by lack of charity. Where there is love, there is no judgement; and where there is judgement, there is a lack of love obviously.  

The Pharisees and the Scribes hated Jesus to the core because he was exposing their hypocrisy, their stubbornness of heart, their decision not to see, because they wanted to prove their judgement that Jesus was a fake messiah! Jesus never judged them, for even when he criticised them, he continued to love them! Even after reports and experiences of the goodness of the Lord, they refused to see, or decided not to see!

How far do you really see? Does the sight giving charity truly reside in our hearts?