Easter Monday- Luke 24:35

"Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread." Luke 24:35

It's Easter Monday.  Pastors, musicians, worship leaders, church administrators, altar guild members, church fellowship committees, and everyone else who made the Holy Week and Easter services possible, breathe a sigh of relief.  It's all wonderful, to be sure, but it takes a great effort on the part of so many to make it all possible. And now life continues on.  In the church, Easter is not a single day.  Rather it is a season of 50 days, leading up to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.  In today's Bible verse, when the risen Jesus  appears to two disciples in Emmaus, the food imagery we have seen throughout Lent returns.  Christ is made known to them "in the breaking of the bread."  It is appropriate that we end these devotions with this resurrection appearance and the breaking of the bread.  For the past 7 weeks our thoughts have been on hunger in the world and how we might respond.  It's not an easy topic to think about, but it is important to do so. Thank you for participating.  I hope you have found these devotions, and my personal reflections, helpful. As Jesus made himself known to the disciples in "the breaking of the bread," may he do so for us.  And as we are fed, may we do all we can so that all the world may be fed as well.  God's blessings as you live in the hope of the resurrection each day throughout the upcoming year!