The Fourth Sunday in Lent: John 9:1-41 - The Rev. Colette Hammesfahr
John 9:1-41, March 15, 2026 Most of you may remember the children’s show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS. Fred Rogers once said that when he was a little boy and saw scary things in the news, he would get frightened. His mother would say to him, when you see scary or bad things happening, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” That is a wise thing to say to a child who is scared. She was not pretending that what he saw was not real. Scary things do happen. Bad things do happen. What she was doing was giving him a way to look at the world when it felt frightening. She was teaching him where to turn when fear began to take over. “Look for the helpers. You will always find people wh...