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Friday, April 6, 2018

Poem: “The Road of Trust” by Macrina Wiederkehr, OSB

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.

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