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这个故事关于一位女士。某个星期日早上，她漫不经心地偶然地走进一间教堂里。她是无神论者，所以她自己也不甚明白为什么会决定在教堂里坐下来。后来她有机会领受圣餐，也不知怎么回事，她并没有拒绝领受。当她听到“你们吃这饼”这句话和领受吃饼时，她好像获得了一个启示。从那一刻开始，她便跟从了耶稣，她更创办了一个救济食品发放中心，为需要的人提供食物。

这个故事和我们今天在路加福音看到的故事，让我们领略到纵使人不认识耶稣是谁，有些事仍然可能会发生在他们身上。我们看到那两个走在通往以马忤斯路上的门徒的故事时，我们不禁感到疑惑，耶稣为什么不让他们认出是祂呢？祂肯定可以早点向他们揭晓祂是谁，让他们欢喜快乐。然而，神行事的方式和我们设想的不同。后来，出于某些原因，当耶稣“拿起饼来，祝谢了，擘开，递给他们”时，他们的眼睛明亮了。

我们不能控制耶稣会以怎样的方式，以及会在何时把祂自己显给我们看，而这些都与我们的理解能力无关。我们能够以信心接受这个事实吗？

在耶稣复活的这一天，对这两个跟从祂的人来说，最重要的事，就是在擘饼时，耶稣容许他们认出祂来，祂让他们明白，甚至经验到到祂真正是谁的真理。

There's a story about a woman who happened to wander into a church on a Sunday morning. She was an atheist, so she wasn't quite sure why she decided to sit there in a pew, and then when she was offered communion, for some reason she didn't turn it down. As she heard the words "Take this bread" and ate the piece of bread, it was as if she received a revelation. From that moment on, she followed Jesus and then started a food bank so that she could help feed others.

This story and our reading in Luke today give glimpses of what's possible even when people aren't aware of who Jesus is. When we read the story of the men walking on the road to Emmaus, it's hard not to wonder why Jesus kept them from recognizing him. He could easily have told them earlier who he was and filled them with joy. Yet God's ways are not our ways. And then somehow, when Jesus "took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them," their eyes were opened.

Can we accept that we can't control how or when Jesus reveals himself to us, and that it may not depend on our intellectual ability?

Jesus allowed these followers, on the very day of his resurrection, to recognize him first and foremost in the breaking of bread, permitting them to understand and even to taste the truth of who he really was.