Stay with us
Luke 24 : 13 - 35"Stay with us...."
This has become a most familiar and favorite passage for me over the years. I have examined it from the perspective of the Risen Lord as 'counselor', and as 'spiritual director'. I have prayed imaginatively with it and received much fruit from placing myself in the scene. And this passage comes along every year, one of the readings during this Easter week. I have never felt that I have 'overused' it, or that there is no more to 'hear' from it.
Each time I meet the Lord at a different point on the 'road to Emmaus', the road of my life that seems to wind and bend......to places that I cannot see from where I am. I have an eagerness or perhaps need (in order to feel secure) to know what might lie beyond the bend. Such that I find myself failing to enjoy the place where I am at this present moment!! Nothing very earth shaking but it does prevent me from enjoying and connecting with the Lord right here and now, where I am and where he wants to meet me. Not in some distant future concern but here where he would like me to be. So today, I felt the words "Stay with us" voices what I truly desire and need from the Lord: his presence in the 'now-ness' of my life, the places that I can see well, the places both of joy and of confusion. I look forward to meeting him in the 'breaking of bread', in his gentle nurture to renew and recreate my life. As I look back over the day, it will be important to recognize those moments when I 'recognized' him, and those moments when I fail to.
"Stay with us...stay with me, Lord....through the day"
My elder son is also about to embark on a significant journey of his own as he enters university in May. There may well be a time of adjustment as he has had all his education up to now in a government school. I could see his slight discomfort at the large number of young people, of different nationalities, milling around the university as we went to enrol a few days ago. I will pray that he finds the Risen Lord his companion on the journey to a new and challenging environment.
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2 comments:
Hi, I read that passage also and went for a walk. I wanted to know when He would walk beside me and tell me things. I don't know what I 'heard' but my 'frustration' in not being able to be in my favourite ministry has taken second place. The first is to pray for them and continue my 'work' at home.
Thanks for the photo. Brings back wonderful memories of my walks there.
God bless.
You are receiving the graces of a 'slow-er spirituality'. It takes much adjustment, but the Lord seems to be bringing peace at a deeper heart level. As you share about your moments with Timmy, it is evident that His gifts are pouring forth, through the 'calling' He has for you at this time.
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