Matthew 13v13-15

(Sorry for wrong version sent out earlier)

Heavenly father
give us grace to live today with our eyes open and ears attentive, so that we may understand and find healing for when our hearts are callous, our ears dull of hearing and our eyes wide shut. 

¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see,
and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. 
¹⁴ In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says,

‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand;
Seeing you will see,  and will in no way perceive;
¹⁵ for this people’s heart has grown callous, ears are dull of hearing,
    and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes,
    hear with their ears, understand with their heart,
and would turn again, and I would heal them.’