How Foolish

On the road to Emmaus, there are many pitfalls but they too are part of our journey. In Matthew, we read a passage in which Jesus says "How foolish you are, how slow to believe everything the prophets said." How true that is ... 

We are slow, because we are human. We are not gifted with perfection or with divine faith, unshakable faith. We struggle with sin and despair, with belief and disbelief, with doubts too many to count. We are human and we are indeed foolish when it comes to bringing Jesus into our hearts. We do believe but we are often too slow to believe in full measure. We are those men that Jesus was speaking to. We are all of us.

But that is the path too, that hard walk too is the way of the Lord. To make us struggle with Him, to make us think more deeply, to help us understand ... that is part of what God wants from us. Today through the stories I have heard at our Emmaus retreat so far, I see that more clearly. This is a personal journey and it is different for each of us. Just as our fingerprints are unique to each of us, so too is the development of our spiritual path. Rocky or smooth, it is our own and unique to each of us. There is no other path that compares.

People often say "You make the bed that you lie in." And our faith journey is indeed that bed we make. We may toss and turn, we may lie sweetly, we may dream ... all may be true in our lives, at one time or another. in one way or another. So today I pray that my path will be forever clear, though forever unfinished. I look to dispel the foolish lack I have in my heart ... I seek to find Jesus faster every day, to learn more about the prophets and believe more surely.

I want to know the road to Emmaus, really know it so I can express it to my family, to my friends, to my circle of influence, that corner of my world that will listen. I am one of those men that Jesus is speaking to, and I am listening more intently than ever.