4th Sunday of Lent

Pastor Amanda used the Gospel story of the blind man to challenge assumptions about healing and disability, inviting readers to see suffering, wholeness, and God’s work beyond the idea that something is “wrong” with a person.

You can read her manuscript by opening the document above.

Reflection Questions:

1. When you hear stories of healing in the Bible, what assumptions do you instinctively make about disability or suffering, and where might those assumptions come from? 
2. How does the distinction between temporary illness and long‑term conditions change the way you think about healing and hope? 
3. In what ways might faith communities unintentionally harm people with disabilities when interpreting healing stories? 
4. Where do you notice God at work in people’s lives that does not involve “fixing” or curing something? 
5. How might this passage invite you to rethink what true wholeness and restoration look like?

Prayer:

Gracious God, you meet us not only in healing but in accompaniment, teaching us that our worth is not measured by wholeness or strength but by your unending grace. Open us to see your work in every body and every life, free us from judgment, and shape us into a community that bears one another with compassion, trust, and hope in Christ. Amen.