Finally the desert, the dryness, the barren land would change and bloom and produce fruit. There is in our time a renewed interest in miracles. One of the students in Confirmation class last year asked me if I believed in miracles. Perhaps all this is why it is so important to recognize that there was no necessary routine or exact pattern in the way Jesus touched lives. In today's miracle story there was definite contact and presence.
Blind people begin to see.
What about the person today who is finally able to see beyond the hurt, to look at the other person with love and forgiveness. I think so. The deaf hear. What about the person who finally hears the word of Jesus, the word of forgiveness, the word of God's unconditional love. What about the person who has been crippled and burdened with guilt for weeks or months or years and finally hears what Jesus is saying.