The Eyes Have It John 3:1-15 Rev. Catherine Smith In the desert, long before John’s gospel was written, there was the story of a people always walking backwards, their eyes turned toward what had been, people always ready to be distracted from life’s unfolding, by the sightless golden calves. These people, so the story goes, were bitten by snakes. Strangely it was the first time in all those years in the treacherous wilderness that this had happened. It was as though