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Sermon, “Blind One’s Bluff” 4/3/11 Lent 4-A John 9:1-41 Pilgrim Church, UCC B’ham, AL Rev. Janet Boyd Weidler Quote in bulletin: “My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.” Helen Keller Blind Man’s Bluff is a game I remember playing as a child. Maybe you remember it too- it’s a variation of Tag. One player is designated as "It"; “It” is blindfolded and has to grope around attempting to tag the other players without being able to see them, all the other players scatter, hiding in plain sight and sometimes teasing them to make them change direction. Hiding in plain sight works amazingly well - too well, in far too many situations. How often do we miss someone “hiding in plain sight,” the homeless person on the street, the child we are too preoccupied to pay attention to, the friend or partner or spouse who has become so familiar that we fail to appreciate them? The blind m...