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Confusion….judgments….hearsay…doubts…
Curiosity… stillness…listening….openness….
Responsiveness…transformation….
As the disciples walked on the road to Emmaus with an apparent stranger, they began to engage in both “thin and thick” speech. They asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that have happened?” When they first met the stranger, the disciples must have felt as though they were stumbling in the dark as to the stranger’s identity. As they began to open themselves by asking questions to the stranger that both troubled and challenged them, they began to encounter the Christ in the blessing and breaking of the bread. Each of them experienced their own “aha” moment of enlightenment and responded to the Light of Easter. Their encounter was one of personal transformation.
Our lives are full of encounters and conversations of “thin and thick” speech. If we contemplatively look, listen, and respond with open hearts, the path or Love and the presence of Jesus will be revealed to us. We, too, will have our “aha” moments. We, too, will be transformed just as the disciples were changed. The background of chaotic moments will begin to reveal itself with a sense of order and meaning. Hopefully, we, too, will see the Easter Light and then begin to companion with and through the Light.
--Reflect on an “aha” moment in your life. What was it like to “see” the Light ? What response did you make?
--Where has Jesus shown up when you least expected?
--How can you continue to foster your relationship with Jesus in, through, and with the Easter Light ?
--Helen Weigmann SSJ
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