These thoughts are all pulled from the book I referenced in my last post,
Love Walked Among Us, by Paul Miller.

In reference to Jesus healing a man blind from birth;

“The disciples see a blind man; Jesus sees a man who happens to be blind.
The disciples see an item for debate; Jesus sees a person, a human being
like himself. They see sin, the effect of man’s work; Jesus sees need, the
potential for God’s work. The disciples see a completed tragedy and wonder
who the villain was; Jesus sees a story half-told with the best yet to
come.”

“It is one thing to notice a blind man; it’s quite another to stop and talk
with him - that gets scary. He might ask for money or interrupt our
schedule. It’s as if we are afraid that his blindness might affect us.
This fear is not irrational - when we pause to have compassion, something of
the other person’s problems comes on us. Some of his pain touches us. At
the very least, slowing down and noticing someone takes time.”"

“Compassion affects us. Maybe that’s why we judge so quickly- it keeps us
from being infected by other people’s problems. Passing judgment is just so
efficient.”

“Jesus said that his primary way of relating to people is saving them, not
evaluating them. “for I did not come to judge the world, but to save it”
John 12:47 That not only describes his whole life, but the individual
moments of his life, like this brief encounter with the blind man.”

“Judging is knee-jerk, quick and bereft of thought, while compassion is slow
and thought-filled. Judging separates and thus destroys community;
compassion unites and creates community.”

“We’ll often notice things wrong with people, but does that initial look
lead to compassion and helping, or to judging and distance? Compassion and
judging are two different ways of ’seeing’.
When we stop judging, we rest from the incessant work of analyzing others.
We don’t need to figure out what’s wrong with them, that’s God’s job. Our
job is to understand.”