We walked into the sunset
brooding our deep loss,
sure that the best days of our lives
lay dead behind us.
We talked around the rumours
spread by our small group,
but feared to embrace the good news
lest it be false hope.
A stranger then overtook us,
travelling our road,
he unfolded the truths and loves
our grief had betrayed.
Our hearts trembled within us
for the faith we’d lost,
we reached an inn at sundown
wanting to break fast.
We sat at table together
to share cheese and bread,
he took up the loaf and broke it
and out danced the dead!
– Bruce Prewer, ‘Emmaus’ in Beyond Words: Reflections on the Gospel of Luke (Melbourne: The Joint Board of Christian Education, 1995), 62.
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