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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