By the Rt. Rev. Kristin Uffelman White
Yesterday’s gospel reading includes one of my favorite passages of scripture: the road to Emmaus. The point that always takes my breath away is when the disciples say to Jesus, not knowing that it is he himself who is walking with them, “But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel.” I imagine their hands clutching at what they had dreamed, what they had wished for, in the one they had lost…who was now with them, though they couldn’t see.
The heartbreak of that moment is real and palpable. They’d spent the last three years of their lives following him, giving themselves over to the redemption that he promised. And now, he’s there – but their eyes are prevented from recognizing him. Even so, he continues to walk alongside them. Even so, he teaches them as they go – and they’re so captivated that they don’t want him to leave.
It’s in the ordinary but sacramental moment of sitting at the table with him, when he takes bread, and blesses and breaks it, that Jesus is revealed. And in that moment, everything changes.
Beloved, where have been the ordinary, sacramental moments in which God is revealed to you? How have those moments changed your life?
