One of my favorite traveling games when my wife and I are driving somewhere is to listen to 80s music, in my opinion the greatest decade of music ever, and say, “Who is this?”, trying to name the band.

For those of us who have to wear some sort of corrective lenses, what a gift it is to be able to see clearly as, we know, what is it like to try and read or see without them.  The historical interaction that we read about today between the blind man brought by his friends and Jesus, resulted in his sight being restored, and him having the ability to see everything clearly (Mark 8:25).

While taking a boat ride away from an incredibly full day or two, Jesus’ disciples were distracted by something Jesus said. While talking about “yeast of the Pharisees,” the disciples got distracted by bread, and their thoughts were on literal bread.

I love to hear my dad’s stories. One of those stories was about the time when my dad was working construction and came up against a problem he couldn’t make sense of, so he called my Uncle Bob. My Uncle Bob was someone who my dad trusted and had great wisdom when it came to commercial excavation.

In Exodus 4:10, Moses says to the Lord that he is slow of speech and cannot be used for God’s purposes, but God disagreed. In Mark 7, we read about how a man is deaf and speechless and God opened his ears and mouth and he spoke plainly after that.