Too Good to be True?

“While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, ‘have you anything to eat?’” -Luke 24:41

 

Have you ever experienced anything that seems too good to be true? I admit that I love being a priest and the unlikely, winding way that I found myself breaking bread at the Altar is all too much to be true for me. But it is true. I remind myself of that not only because I perform the function of a priest at the Altar, but because of the daily abundance I receive through Christ, with Christ, in Christ. It’s all too much for me to process because I am merely a participant in this daily rhythm of grace.

 

I leave the Altar and I go to the office and the doorbell rings. A man says, “Have you anything to eat.”

 

I see the wounds on his face. I don’t need to look at this hands to see that at this moment he is a penniless man from Galilee preaching to me.