The road to Emmaus from Jerusalem is really only about 7 ½ miles, which could take a couple of hours if folks are talking. So in their travels, the disciples didn’t see it was Jesus with them.
The Gospel story is that the resurrected Jesus, unrecognized, walks with a couple of disciples and talks with them all the while still teaching. This is our story too. Jesus is still walking and talking to us in our grief, in our changed lives.
We know grief does crazy things to folks. All normal reactions but grief can change the way we see the world. Right now for example, things do not look the same way they did just a few weeks ago.
It may also be more difficult to see Jesus among us.
I have found it hard to recognize Jesus on this long and winding road these days. I’m working on that …
Yet there are thousands of examples, the often-extraordinary measures that health care folks take every day! This is Jesus in my book.
People who go to work in service jobs and are helpful and kind and smile! This is Jesus.
Parents juggling working, teaching, living. This is Jesus.
This is real bread, that feds.
Grief is overwhelming – because we have lost things. We are sad. We are angry. We are disappointed. We are frustrated. We are powerless. We have lots and lots of feelings. Here is where I emphasize again … it’s what happens. It may not feel normal, yet beloved what you feel is normal.
How do we see Jesus in the midst of grief and loss?
We remember the resurrection. The resurrection is real. How and where we see Jesus, … well that it is different for each of us. It can be hard.
Find some time this week to see and share your daily bread. Really. I’d love to hear from you.
I relied heavily on Sunday Eucharists to be my bread, my Jesus. And I see I must widen my view, I’m refocusing my vision to see Jesus alive in the narrow, constricted world of my current life.
This is true for all of you too.
So, I say again, the resurrection is real. Christ is among us.
I was reminded of a piece of scripture that speaks of hope and God’s promise to be with us …
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we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.
2 Corinthians 4:7-10
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