Life is full of interruptions. It is full of beginnings and
endings, successes, and failures. Jesus interrupts the life of the disciples
today when He appeared and said, “Peace be with you!” In today's Gospel, the
risen Jesus appears to His eleven disciples. He does not appear as a Platonic
soul, a ghost, or a hallucination. Instead, He can be touched and seen, has
flesh and bones, and can consume baked fish. Jesus appears and the disciples
are once again changed.
Have you ever felt Jesus’ presence? Have you ever heard His
voice speaking to your heart? Have you ever been changed because of an encounter
with Jesus? Just as Jesus spoke the words of peace to His disciples, He does
the same for us each and every day. Jesus desires for us to recognize Him in
the breaking of the bread. Each day Jesus invites us to be people of peace, people
of hope, people of love.
As we begin our day, we are busy focusing on many different
ordinary tasks. Jesus invites us to refocus or thinking and embrace the gift
that He promises us each day. Peace is what Jesus continually brings to us. God
loved us so much that He sent His Son to bring us peace.
Right now, our world is anything but peaceful. Let us listen to Jesus and embrace His
invitation to start each day in peace. Let it infuse our hearts, our families,
our homes, our workplaces. May we embrace Jesus’ invitation of peace and allow
it to embody all that we do.
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