What Do You Want Me to Do for You?

A reflection on Mark 10:46-52 from Charlotte Elia. “What do you want me to do for you?” This simple question, this simple tool of Jesus, honors the person you want to serve by centering them and their experience and by respecting their autonomy, their humanity. People who are suffering poverty, hunger, homelessness are seldom asked what they actually want, what they actually need because they are treated more like problems to be solved than people.