"But they were not able to recognize who he was."
On the road to Emmaus two of the disciples are in a very deep conversation about what has happened to Jesus. Their conversation is so intense that when Jesus joins them they don't recognize him. Not until later in the morning when he breaks bread with them do they realize that the stranger is Jesus.
This story begs the question of how often to do we miss Jesus? How many times has Jesus tried to prompt our hearts to action, but we were so involved that we missed the prompting? How often has someone in need been brought directly into our path by God but we missed the moment? The story calls us to pay attention for we never know when or how the Lord might appear to us.
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I know that I miss many opportunities to serve God when I fail to serve others. This reminds me of a Mother Teresa quote: "The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved; they are Jesus in disguise." I pray that God will help us to seize the moments in which our Lord appears to us but we don't recognize Him nor respond to Him!
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