“For the rest of my time there, I lived in a different world. I walked a little bit lighter with a heightened sense that anything could be waiting around the next corner. There was, suddenly, something more to this place I thought I knew. I received something from this man that opened for me the landscape around me, the place I inhabited and he gave me new eyes to see what was all around. I am grateful for these encounters that change me and how I see in some way, and our gospel today is about this opening of our eyes, but with and to faith…”