Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Poem: "The Road of Trust” by: Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB

 The road to Emmaus is not a road of the past

It is an everyday road

Someone is still walking along beside us 

explaining the scriptures to us 

breaking bread with us, 

and then vanishing from our sight.

 

And we are still rather slow 

about recognizing what’s happening 

in the breaking of the bread, 

and that’s because 

we are slow about trusting.

 

It takes so long to be a Church. 

We seem unable 

to trust the struggle as divine 

and even in the struggle 

to cry out; 

It is the Lord!

 

We long to recognize Christ 

before we trust 

the stranger he sends down our road,

 

And so, 

often 

we miss the blessing.

 

It is not that 

we’re on the wrong road.

 

It is rather 

that we fail 

to trust 

and recognize 

strangers.

 

The road 

we walk each day 

is 

the road to Emmaus.

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