Of a person who is undergoing suffering,
You are still disputing and asking: “who sinned,
This person or his parents, that he was born blind?” (1)
Of the painful life of a person,
Without mercy you are running to find sin.
Don’t you know that you hide your violent desire in a religious term?
Religious sin is not an implement with which to attack a person.
It is a means to find the light in darkness, and
It is a sign to protect a one from the evil that eats a person.
Before a person who is suffering,
What you have to do is to feel the pain of a soul,
What you have to hear is the merciful voice from your faith.
You have long seen and learned religious rule, and
You have lost knowledge of love-covered sin. Instead
You have become a judge serving your god.
If you are still searching the sin of a person,
You would be better not seeing the religious rule;
To be blind to sin would be better for you.
Rev. Yong Sub Sim
Based on John 9:41
(1) John 9:2
Cawén, Alvar, 1886-1935. Blind, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55628 [retrieved October 16, 2019]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cawen.jpg.
