May 4, 2022

“For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?” (Romans 8:24)

A remarkable woman in her mid-nineties, the day after a major operation, said that she signed up for one more surgery called an Ophtho-Rectal surgery that involves a stent that runs from the eyes all the way down to the rear end. The purpose of the surgery, said this dear, faithful and long-suffering lady, is “to correct your sh**ty outlook on life!”

She must have had this surgery as a child, because I’ve never met a more sanguine, yet honest, person in my life. Goes to show that we all have our moments – and lots of them.

Good thing that we walk by faith and not by sight and our hope is in what is unseen. For what is unseen is the hand of God at work making all things happy – and when the time comes, plain as day.

“O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his redeeming work; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Third Sunday of Easter – BCP)