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.