The stranger breaks bread

After Luke 24:13-35 

He sits with us, to eat;

we recline at table,

the bread and wine

set before us. We talk,

and then we see him,

the stranger, the guest,

perform the duties

of host, taking the bread

and breaking it for us.

The scales fall from

our eyes, and we see.

This was no stranger,

no odd fellow we’d

met on the road and 

invited to eat with us.

This was the one

who broke the bread

for us mere days

before, the one who

died.

 

Photograph by Danny Lines via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

On Paintings by Hunt and Millais: Two Ekphrastic Poems – James Tweedie at Society of Classical Poets. 

 

The Table of the Lord – Nathan Eshelman at Gentle Reformation. 

 

Why So Many Rural Churches? – Charles Cotherman at Plough Quarterly.

 

Three Years Later: What I Miss Most – Tim Challies.