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After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee. When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples to ask him, “Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?” Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”

As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?”

—Matthew 11:1–7 (NIV)

“There are three reasons for which the soul’s journey to union with God is called night. The first has to do with the soul’s starting point. It must gradually deprive itself of desire for all worldly things by denying these things to itself. Such denial and deprivation are night to the human senses. The second reason has to do with the road along which the soul must travel to this union, that is, faith, which also is as dark as night to the understanding. The third has to do with the point to which it travels—that is, God, who is equally a dark night to the soul in this life. The soul must pass through these dark nights so that it may come to divine union with God.” —St. John of the Cross

Lord, help me to see.