Emmaus

We cry
Our feet are lead
and dead
We can barely lift one then the other
to plod along
the road to Emmaus
choking not on dust
but pain and grief
and disbelief
The Master gone.
And one comes alongside us saying
Why are you grieving?
We can't believe
he doesn't know, three days ago
they took the Master
drug Him to that hill to kill
and now
even His body gone.
But the man asks "Ought not Christ
to have suffered these things?
And to enter into His glory?"
The words reverberate on the road like writing on the air
And our hearts burn within us
as he opens the scriptures to us,
back to Moses and the prophets
and up to the day
our Master had to die
and why.
His words were alive
we did not want him to go
not then not ever
and so he stayed.
And when he broke bread with us
and blessed it
our eyes opened
and we saw it was Him.
Him all along.
Him alive.

Luke 24:26
Luke 24:32

by Linda Johnson