(27) Walking the Emmaus Road Together – YouTube
The introductory video lays out the landscape of this series. It invites you to allow
the questions of your heart and mind to surface as we walk the path together like the
two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24: 13-35). It is a journey of conversation and deep listening. It is about walking together beginning to unearth the meaning of events that touch us and shape our reality. It is about becoming aware of the many realities that might be alien to us, but are the daily lived realities of so many others. It is about engaging with the “questions that have no right to go away” (Sometimes – David Whyte).
How would you describe your experience of the last couple of months?
What questions have you become aware of within yourself?
What questions have you become aware of in society, both locally and globally?
Let us not rush to find the answers just yet. It is quite a challenge to stay with a question that constantly expands and invites me to deeper and wider consciousness. It is like Rainer Maria Rilke saying:
I live my life in widening circles
that reach out across the world.
I may not complete this last one
but I give myself to it.
I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
I’ve been circling for thousands of years
and I still don’t know: am I a falcon,
a storm, or a great song?
As we set out on this journey, let us read two pieces by the poet David Whyte:
1.“Sometimes” https://bit.ly/2zcKo7W and
2.10 Questions That Have No Right to Go Away https://bit.ly/3dPHLs0
PSG @ Edmund Rice 