“The Road to Emmaus”

Expectations

will floor you.

they just won’t ignore you.

Fooling you time and again.

Expectations

Blind us

And turn us around

With no sense of normal

of the sky or the ground…

Two travelers slowly walking

Footprints weighted by the day’s event

Two friends with anguish talking

Disconnected in their argument.

A stranger joins them asking what sadness occurred?                     

“Friend, how is it you are the only one who has not heard.”

“A man, a prophet, strong in deed and word.

“We hoped He was the Messiah,” was their plaintive cry;

“But our chief priests have had him crucified.”

And now even worse rumors circulate that some have seen him rise.

“Now our cause, our hope has morphed into a lie.

A kitty hides in a tree nearby

 Watching as it sighs

And wonders why these men don’t know

 That the man in front of them is God also.

Their footprints sink even deeper in the sand.

But the stranger turns to face them with a surprising reprimand.

“Oh, foolish ones, so full of doubt

You grieve because you know not what the Messiah is all about.”        

Starting with Moses, the Scriptures He did explain.

The Christ, the anointed one was supposed to suffer pain.

“It seems to me that this is not the end

But a beginning you need to comprehend.“

Expectations

A grand speculation

On how the Messiah, the Savior

     could be a servant instead.

Expectations

Causing many frustrations

Wanting a king who would make the Romans cower

Instead, He came with obedience and love as his power.

Expectations

This puzzle you don’t understand

Is not a mistake but part of God’s plan.

Following behind at a very slow speed

 A kitty wonders if mankind can even read.

For in God’s Word it is very plain

The reason, the purpose for which He came.

As they reached their town

The two friends from the road stepped down

And invited the Stranger to join them for a meal and sit down.   

As they reclined at table

The stranger blessed and broke the bread  

The two men’s eyes were opened and able

To recognize this stranger as Jesus whom they fed.

“All the while were our hearts not burning within us?”

So back to  tell the disciples in Jerusalem they fled.

                    

Expectation

The beginning of a jubilation                                           

A burning heart

   now signaling a fresh start

Of an unspoiled creation

A foundation

Of a new relation

of love’s application

  God and man no longer apart.    

                                            

For the earnest expectation of the creation waits

For the revealing of the Son of God to be great. 

That man will cease in his debate

And enter into grace as a state.

And the animals, as they have known all along will translate

To mankind that sin is never an option to negotiate.

And that God’s promise of a Messiah, a Savior is not void but innate.

Happy Easter

From Kathy and Dave Benedetto, Poet and Editor

     And “a kitty” who is wise beyond her fur.

From The Kitty Chronicle © March 2022

For those who chronically love kitties.