If you follow the lectionary, you know that this is the year of Luke. This being the season of Easter, I was looking forward to the Emmaus story (Luke 24:13-35), which appears only in Luke. You'll recall that this is the one in which Jesus appears to two of the disciples, has a long conversation with them and shares a meal with them as well, but they don't recognize him until just before vanishes.
As we moved past Easter Sunday and the stories immediately following the resurrection, the lectionary left Luke and turned to John and the long, almost philosophical dissertations he gives to Jesus. I asked the pastor if we were going to get the Emmaus story this year. He said no - it turns up in the year of Mark. (Say what?)
So I turned to it on my own. Taken at a personal level, and not as a historical event, it is one of the great stories of the Bible and our relationship with God. Marcus Borg quotes John Dominic Crossan on this: "Emmaus never happened. Emmaus always happens."
That says it all.
I agree. "what you are speaks so loud I can't hear what you say." We are a living expression of what we believe and the choices we make. I love your choices, Mike.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 18, 2004 at 09:30 AM