Cloudy vision

The vision we have is clouded. The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary offer some reflection on the bias our emotions and expectations bring to our ability to see God Present in life. The psalmist praises God for the gift of humility through which understanding of the precepts of the Lord has come to him. Friar Jude Winkler comments on the repentance of Job to God as he comes to realize how limited his vision has been and how foolish he was to be ruled by emotion. At the same time, Friar Jude advises that we need to work through and struggle with our feelings and emotions in relationship with the Divine. Like Job, our path to enlightenment may be through deep struggle. The Gospel of Luke reinforces a reality visible in the catholic experience of God where the faith and trust of the many witnesses to a deep relationship with God, past and present, is so much more a revelation of the Life in Christ than the wisdom and intellectual arguments of those gifted in scholarship and presentation. The celebration proclaimed by Jesus in this text is not in honour of the great works of healing accomplished by the disciples but in the deep relationship of the Holy Spirit given them with the Father, through the Son. This life in the Way is the vision which has been pursued by seekers of the truth.