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| Caravaggio - "Emmaus" |
Puppy or baby – take your pick. They whimper at night, alone in their place, while you are in the next room. You peek in, comforting them, “I’m right around the corner. I’m here. Don’t be afraid.” Maybe you reach out and touch them, so they know you’re really there. And bit by bit, day by day, they begin to understand that out of sight does not mean gone. They begin to feel better just knowing you’re near.
So Doubt Week is the first week after Easter, and during this second week we begin to enjoy a process of reminding, of Jesus peeking in again and again telling us, “I’m still here” and tucking us in, comforting us, teaching us faith. On this Third Sunday after Easter, Jesus begins to teach us not in our heads but our hearts. Two men are walking “conversing and debating”
