At Stone Soup, we begin with the Rock of Ages, everyone brings what they have and the whole community is fed. This is the blog and information center for Stone Soup, the Sunday afternoon worship service at Saluda United Methodist Church.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
The Sight of the Blind
Let's learn how to find those things that we cannot see.
Dinner will be based around Eggs Florentine provided by Katrina and family. Everyone else bring stuff to go along with this. Go easy, nothing too hard to handle because we'll be eating blindfolded. Don't forget to bring a bandana.
"This is the basic idea behind the Blindekuh restaurant in Zurich, opened by four blind entrepreneurs in the late 1990's, where diners still make reservations month ahead to eat in the dark. The restaurant's owners were inspired by a blind Swiss pastor named Jurg Spielmann who routinely blindfolded the dinner guest who came to his house. He said they paid more attention to the food that way, and they also listened to each other better." from Learning to Walk in the Dark
We will also talk about our "blind spots", those issues in our own lives that lie hidden from us.
In chapter 9 of the Gospel of John, Jesus heals a blind man but a lot of craziness and blaming breaks out and this is how the chapter ends, "Jesus said, ‘I came into this world for judgement so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.’ Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, ‘Surely we are not blind, are we?’ Jesus said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, “We see”, your sin remains."
5 p.m. at the Wesley Cottage. See you then... not!
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