“The Train to Burlington”

     Now that same day two of them were going to a suburb called Burlington about a half hour train  ride from Toronto. They were talking with each other about the violence in the Middle East, then they moved on to police brutality, then to the new construction along the tracks, then to the Leafs and the Jays. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and sat down beside them, but they were kept from recognizing him.

     He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you ride along?”

     They frowned. One of them, named Demas, commented, “You must be a visitor not to know about all these things?”

   "What things?" he asked.

     "All the politics,” they replied. "And the terrorism, and the racial tension, the sale of Hydro One and even our teams?"

     He said to them, "How foolish you are! Do you ever talk about Jesus?" And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he quickly explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

     As they approached their stop they suggested, "Come to lunch with us." But he was disappointed with their apathy. He travelled on...

                                                                                                                               (Luke 24:13-35,with apologies to Dr. Luke)   Ì