One of the things that I enjoy about sermon preparation is seeing what insights I gain as I dive into the scriptures to (hopefully) glean some nugget of wisdom that I can share with the congregation. Now, I tend to follow the lectionary more often than not, so I don’t have to search for the scriptures to be used in worship.
This week, our Gospel lesson deals with the Emmaus story from Luke 24:13-35. Two followers of Jesus, traveling to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection, are joined on the road by Jesus…and they don’t recognize him. They travel together, talking all the way while Jesus opens the scriptures concerning the Messiah to them, but they don’t recognize Jesus until they break bread together. In that instance, their eyes are opened.
How many times have we been in the presence of Jesus and didn’t recognize him? How many times have we been so wrapped up in our own thoughts or our own problems that we have failed to see that Jesus is walking beside us offering to carry the load for us?
DannyG has a wonderful post about his own close encounter of the Jesus kind on Easter morning.
April 4, 2008 at 1:45 am
How many times indeed! How many times…
April 6, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I just started my blog here and liked the look of yours, which I just happened upon. I transferred mine over to the Connections theme you’re using, but can see that you’ve done some modifying. Did you subscribe to the CSS editor to do it?
Joy
April 7, 2008 at 9:09 am
Joy,
The modifications have simply been nothing more than fiddling with the widgets. This is something you can do without subscribing to the CSS editor.
Wayne