Stay With Us

Note:  This is our 3,500th slice of Daily Bread!

We read again the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus, as we did during the Octave of Easter. (Lk 24: 13-35). In contrast to the two disciples who had Jesus with them, breaking open the Scriptures for them and breaking bread with them at their own table, we are on lock down, churches are closed and the only possibility of gathering around the table of the Lord is via internet or TV. Contact with the community is missing. It is at this time when we need Jesus to "stay with us."   To stay with us in forgiveness, in loving acts of kindness, in extended prayer, meditation and reflection on the Scriptures and how our lives measure up to them; in how we relate to one another, in how we reach out to others or welcome them into our lives, in what place we give him in our lives.  Yes, the locked church doors are giving us an opportunity to put into practice what we usually hear on the other side of them but do not heed.  Stay with us, Lord, and open our minds and hearts to welcome you, love you and allow you to work in us and bring you to others.
Bro. Rene