Lessons from Emmaus

Those disciples headed for Emmaus may have been running away, afraid perhaps that what was being said might be true, that maybe the tomb was empty and he really had risen -- a prospect less appealing than a death they could mourn and the satisfaction of having been on a losing side.  Jesus joined them to say it was all right to believe in another response:  the overcoming of death and life beyond what had seemed so final.  He tells them it is OK to be part of what may be rather than what is over, a future as well as a memory.