The readings of Easter are coming to a head. They are like a wave or swiftly running water, wearing away our disbelief, lapping insistently at our worldlinesss, asking, confronting the uncertainty of history with real people, with wounds being touched and food grilled and eaten before our eyes.

So we wonder at our questioning and then as the readings draw to a close question again. Appropriately, today’s reading is the walk from Emmaus and the blindness of the followers until their eyes are opened.