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Touch My Eyes Again A prayer and practice for Lent 2026
Mark 8:11–26

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The Light We Make

Touch My Eyes Again

Prayers in Passing

The Thinnest Season
Let Me Bless the Borrowed Ride
The Great Litany
C Train To the Temple
If God answered my recent complaint as he had that of Jeremiah

An Anglican rosary is a loop of thirty-three beads: four larger “cross” beads spaced around the circle, with four groups of seven smaller beads between them. Then another large bead leads back out to the attached cross. You can make one from cord and inexpensive beads, or even just knots. The point is not beauty or perfection, but touch. The beads steady the hands while the heart learns to return to God.

I’ve started making rosaries from rose petals, pressing and rolling saved flowers into beads. The work is slow. Some crack, others hold—I’m learning as I go. Making a tool for prayer from something that was alive and then saved feels so right. I find such peace having a physical way to tie my words and prayers to the world around me.

In Mark 8, people demand a sign, and Jesus refuses. The disciples panic over bread, forgetting the abundance they have already witnessed. Then a blind man is healed in stages: first blurry, then clear. 

This is Lent: releasing control, remembering what we keep forgetting, and asking for sight that comes slowly.

The blind man doesn’t see clearly the first time. He needs Jesus to touch him again. I keep thinking about that: prayer, too, can be in stages. Not instant. Not clean. Just ask, return, ask again.
The Cross Jesus Christ, deliver me from the hunger to be convinced. Teach me to trust.

The Invitatory Bead
Lord Jesus, touch my eyes again.

The Circle(Repeat this cycle three times)

The Cruciform Beads
(Pray one line as you reach each of the four large beads)
  • Free me from demanding signs; make me faithful.
  • Save me from the yeast of pride and power; make me humble.
  • Quiet my fear of scarcity; teach me to remember.
  • Soften what is hardened in me; open what is closed.

The Weeks
(Pray one line for each of the seven small beads between the Cruciform beads)
  • Lord Jesus, touch my eyes again.
  • Touch my fear.
  • Touch my hurry.
  • Touch my cynicism.
  • Touch my hunger to be right.
  • Touch my forgetfulness.
  • Touch my heart.

Closing (After the third time around, exit the circle)

The Invitatory Bead:
Lord Jesus, touch my eyes again. 

The Cross:Christ, let me return to You, blinking in the light.
Amen.


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