Our readings today speak of blindness. From Isaiah, we read that “out of the gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.” Matthew’s Gospel echoes a similar theme as Jesus asks two blind men who seek sight, “Do you believe that I can do this?” In affirmation, he then tells them, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.” Fr. Ron Rolheiser speaks to the two meanings of blindness, which we can view most clearly when Jesus heals people. “He’s giving them more than just physical sight; he’s opening their eyes so that they can see more deeply. Seeing, truly seeing, implies more than having eyes that are physically healthy and open. We all see the outer surface of things, but what’s beneath isn’t as automatically seen. G.K. Chesterton notes that ‘familiarity is the greatest of all illusions and that the secret to life is to learn to look at things familiar until they look unfamiliar again.’ We open our eyes to depth when we open ourselves to wonder.” Fr. Henri Nouwen writes that the power of wonderment is exampled in the eyes of a child. “The minds of children marvel at all they see. It’s a mind not filled with worries for tomorrow but alert and awake in the present moment. It’s a mind opened for grace.” That is what true spiritual sight is about. Bishop Robert Barron echoes the need for openness to God’s grace working in our lives. “If you have not surrendered to the grace of God, you are blind. How wonderful it is, then, that these men in the Gospel can cry out to Jesus in their need . . . You can have all the wealth, pleasure, honor, and power you want. You can have all the worldly goods you could desire. But if you don’t see spiritually, it will do you no good; it will probably destroy you.”