“What do you want me to do for you … I want to see.” So, if we hear this Gospel in the context of how we gather for Sunday Mass in the midst of our journey, I see a connection with last week (James and John and the 10) as a model of what not to do and the weeks that follow, the Scribe and the Widow. Today is the model of how to hear and respond. Bartimeaus is a blind beggar. No accomplishment there. He cries and the folks around him shout back: be quiet, you bother us. Jesus has a simple question: what do you want. Gosh, we want so many things and have so many petty concerns. Could I focus on one? Then, unlike James and John and the ten, Bartimeaus gets it right “I want to see.” Not necessarily have all I could want and desire. Not be happy every day nor first and second place in kingdom. To see. And then, astonishingly, he spontaneously follows Jesus “on the way.” Those chosen from the beginning are mostly concerned about themselves. Bartimeaus joins just as Jesus enters Jerusalem. The blind beggar is our model to hear, respond and come to see and then follow on the way