Sightless

"Stop wavering, but trust," John 20:27

That's what Jesus said to Thomas who had said he'd never believe Jesus had risen from the dead unless he had seen the scars and had actually touched the nail scars on Jesus' hands and had placed his hand on the scar from the lance impaling Jesus' side. So, Jesus invited Thomas to see and to touch and to experience so as to believe. It's not that everybody else was so much nobler in sightless faith than Thomas. No, not at all. Jesus had already made an exhibit of his hands and feet and side to the others. Their belief, too, arose from their sensory experience of the risen Jesus. That's why Jesus made them eyewitness to the gospel story. And that's when Jesus spoke of the rest of us, who were not there, who did not see the scars, who did not experience the risen Christ, but yet believe ... when Jesus said of us: Blessed are those. Sky kingdom.

We extend mutual encouragement with a brother or sister today by our common faith. And, amazed together, we offer thanks to Jesus for blessing us, who did not experience him, with life in his name.