In John 9:1-41 we read about Jesus healing a man, the community discussing the healing, and then the man conversing with Jesus again. While reading this passage, we have to be very careful in how we interpret it. First, we need to recognize that physical afflictions are not the result of sins, individual or familial.

Wao! Who would have thought we would ever experience this! I don’t think any one of us who are alive today have gone through a pandemic like this. The last time our world had experienced something of such magnitude, according to CDC, was the Spanish Flu in 1918.

The Gospel text from the lectionary for last Sunday is John 4:5-42. Now that’s a long section to read and it has a lot of good stuff in it. This the well-known story of Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. There are two things that I want to highlight in this passage for you.