Once I Was Blind, But Now I See

John 9 The blind man who was healed by Jesus

This Christian devotional poem is inspired by the Bible story, in John chapter 9, of the blind man who was healed by Jesus. When the man returned from following Jesus’ instructions to wash, the people who saw him asked him in amazement about his healing. They took him to the Jewish temple to show him to the authorities, who kept questioning him about how and who healed him.

This poem focuses on our spiritual blindness before being spiritually healed by Jesus, and how our colleagues, friends and family recognize and question the change in our behaviour and outlook on life. I wrote this poem while I was a Prison Chaplain and shared it in a prison chapel service as the message was centred on this Bible story. Beverley Joy