Apr 26, 2020
"...Sometimes we find ourselves on the road to Emmaus. We find ourselves alone and in pain and dejected and our dreams and hopes have been torn apart. We find ourselves like Cleopas and his unnamed companion on the road to Emmaus saying “we had hoped.” And in those moments, sometimes it is difficult to recognize Jesus; it is difficult to know that Jesus is walking with us on our journey. Our hearts may be strangely warmed, but our heads are computing. That Jesus is right beside us as we walk to whatever is our Emmaus...For Anna in the case, it was “the tiny voice that whispers in your mind.” For the disciples it was in the sharing of story and the breaking of bread. My prayer, my hope, is that you too will recognize and experience the presence of God: the still small voice whispering in the cave, like with Anna and more biblically Elijah, the Risen Lord revealed to you in the scriptures and one day again in the breaking of the bread, walking with us in the grief of Emmaus and the things we had hoped for and we keep talking one more step. Or as Anna sings, “when hope is gone, we do the next right thing.” One more trudge through the valley of the shadow of death. One more climb out of the cave. One more motion as we rise up from where we had fallen at tomb. One more trip back to Jerusalem in order to share that most daring faith that is in us for “the Lord has risen indeed.”