Our ability to walk and talk can not only bring us closer together but can help us journey forward into an unknown future. Often in life, our markers are placed in the past and formed by the experience of what has happened. This can cause us to shape the future by predictions of what should happen rather than what is happening. The experience of the disciples on the road to Emmaus helps us to see that we are all formed by our own interpretation of history. Yet in talking together about the Easter event our lives are reshaped by the person of Jesus that we encounter along the way. He listens to their story and their hopes but helps them to reimagine how the scriptures draw them to a deeper encounter with the Good News. He does not abandon us to our own devices but causes our hearts to burn within us as we meet at the Eucharist.
In our own age, we accompany each other into a future that is not our own. It calls us to the heart of creation in discovering the Word of God who walks with us still. That shares life through the Eucharist and enables us for our mission. As we walk with each other and listen for the voice of life that recreates and renews all things. We discover the promise that we journey to the heart of God. Each day we become people who build a communion of faith that seeks to witness how our lives matter to God.
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