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Friends,
today’s Gospel passage celebrates the faith of two blind men.To have
faith is—to use the current jargon—to live outside of the box, risking,
venturing, believing the impossible. When we remain in the narrow
confines of our perceptions, our thoughts, or our hopes, we live in a
very cramped way. We become closed off to the possibility that
sometimes, the power of faith is manifested in spectacular and
immediately obvious ways. When someone consciously and confidently opens
himself to God, acting as a kind of conduit, the divine energy can
flow.
Faith
allows someone to live in detachment from all of the ups and downs of
life. In the language of St. Ignatius of Loyola: “Lord, I don’t care
whether I have a long life or a short life, whether I am rich or poor,
whether I am healthy or sick.” Someone that lives in that kind of
detachment is free, and because they are free, they are powerful. They
are beyond the threats that arise in the context of this world. This is
the source of dynamis, of real power.
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