When Some Things in Your Life Aren’t What You Hoped: The Emmaus Reality

I once stayed on the Emmaus Road. Walked it early in the cool of the morning. I haven’t thought of those hot, sticky nights in a wobbly twin bed on the Emmaus Road at Yad Hashmona for years, till I opened my Bible this morning, to my next reading in the book of Luke, and there it was, in my scratchy, Bic-blue handwriting:July 6th, 2018, on the Emmaus Road. (Or maybe it’s because yesterday I slammed the van door shut on my own foot and I’m walking with a self-inflicted limp and every st