The lectionary is a great gift, dividing the Bible into bite sized bits for each day. It does have one drawback: the structured way the evangelist tells the story of Jesus gets obscured. For example, this week we read from Mark Eight. On Tuesday there was a story of the disciples of Jesus being blind to who he was. “Do you still not yet understand?” Yesterday told the story of Jesus healing a blind man, not all at once but in stages. Today’s account shows the apostles coming to sight. “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Christ.” However, their sight was not complete; they did not understand the mystery of the cross for salvation.
