“Oh, the things I have seen,” Mildred said laughingly during her speech at her 90th birthday party. She went on to recount life as a child during the great depression. She spoke of witnessing the world change in the face of wars, manufacturing advancement, technology, climate change, and culture shifts.

She waxed eloquently before shifting her conclusion, “But, there are so many things I have yet to see.” Mildred went on to share her desire to see wars and violence end. To see the divisions of people based upon race, gender, and sexual orientation to cease. To see the love of Christ be shared by people who call themselves Christian.

“I want to see more of Christ in you and in me and I sure hope it won’t take us another 90 years to figure out how,” Mildred said as she sat down to a standing ovation from her family, friends and church community.

This Sunday we celebrate our sense of sight. May we too wrestle with the “Christ-like” things we have yet to see as his faithful followers. In the text for Sunday, Matthew 20:29-34, Jesus heals two blind men who cry out, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.” Together in worship we explore the things we might see and do together if we lived into a similar request.