Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
Words exclaimed in our worship this morning. But these words of Easter Resurrection hold true long after the pews of our sanctuary have emptied and we have returned to our daily lives of hopes and dreams; heart aches and disappointments. For the risen Christ not only appears to unsuspecting disciples in front of an empty tomb, but he also walks with the brokenhearted on a dusty road to Emmaus at the end of that first Easter day.
As the pastor/poet Barbara Brown Taylor puts it, “He comes to the disappointed, the doubtful, the disconsolate. He comes to those who don’t know their Bibles, who don’t recognize him even when they are walking beside him. He comes to those who have given up and are headed home, which makes this whole story about the blessedness of being broken.”
It shouldn’t surprise us that Jesus would meet his friends on the road to Emmaus, the road of broken dreams. That’s what he did throughout his life: meeting broken people and helping them to put the pieces back together again. That’s what he always did, and if this story is to be believed, that’s what he still does.
Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! Alleluia!
Pastor Doug
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