God, Our Fellow Traveler

February 18, 2025

The many names from Abraham to Jesus are certainly not saints. They are names of men and women who struggled hard with the powers of evil, sometimes more successfully than others, and who have experienced love, hatred, joy, pain, reward, and punishment, like ourselves. It is these men and women who form the story in which God himself wanted to become a part. God, so it seems, inserted himself in our tiresome and often exhausting journey and became a fellow traveler. When Jesus joined the sad and deeply disappointed disciples on the road to Emmaus and opened their eyes so that they could see what was happening, he revealed what it means that God is a God with us.

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