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Home > Sacraments > Eucharist > Communion reflections > 06 03 2005 - Things worth seeing |
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Things worth seeing One day I asked a friend of mine who had just returned from a long walk in the woods what she had seen. She replied: ‘Nothing in particular’. How was this possible? I asked myself, when I, who cannot hear or see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate shape and design of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly over the rough bark of a pine tree. Occasionally, if I’m lucky, I place my hand quietly on a small tree, and feel the happy quiver of a bird in full song. All this has convinced me of one thing: the greatest calamity that can befall people is not that they should be born blind, but rather that they should have eyes and yet fail to see. (Thoughts of Helen Keller who went blind and deaf when she was only nineteen months old) |
