Today's Gospel was Luke 24:13-35, the story of the disciples meeting the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus. It got me thinking about my spiritual journey through the past several years of trial and suffering how early on depression, anger, and negative emotions were common, long lasting, hard to shake and how infrequently I fight depression or dwell on the negative now. How the way I deal with things and the way I am more joyful now than many think there is reason for me to be... How there are still times where I do get caught up on the things that are wrong or feeling depressed or self-pity or other negative emotions and how I try to pull myself from them, with varying degrees of success versus what actually has caused lasting change or what really does give me hope and the ability to be joyful and to accept God's plan... And how it was right there in today's Gospel, it was the reason I got up and left my desk to be at Mass at 12:05 instead of at the burger place across the street eating lunch...
