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Home > Sacraments > Eucharist > Communion reflections > 02 03 2008 - Eyes that fail to see |
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Eyes that fail to see The thoughts of Helen Keller who went blind and deaf when she was only nineteen months old. “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 is 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 hand 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.” |
