About this episode

Scott Oesterle reflects on relational blindness in the context of Lent using personal anecdotes and biblical stories.

In this reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Scott Oesterle uses his son's Easter game and the story of Jesus healing the blind man to explore how familiarity can create "relational blindness" where we stop truly seeing the people closest to us and put them in mental boxes.

Topics covered

• relational blindness
• family
• spiritual reflection
• Lent
• seeing others
• Christianity

Keywords

• relational blindness
• Lent
• Easter
• family
• spirituality
• Christianity
• blind man

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