“We’re all just walking each other home.” Rumi

Read the account of Jesus walking with the two disciples on the Road to Emmaus in Luke 24:13-35. Note how Jesus walked them home … both literally to their home in Emmaus as well as to their home in Him.

They found their home in Him as they were able to discern His presence with Him … through an inner sense (hearts burning within), in the Scriptures, and through the breaking of bread (the Lord’s supper). In your ongoing journey and pilgrimage in this life, what are the ways of discerning His presence that you will take with you?

In Christ, you have the power of the resurrection at work within you which enables a deepening, growing discernment (“having the eyes of your hearts enlightened”). 

“I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. (Ephesians 1:16–21)

Take a walk with God and use your imagination to envision the reality that God is with you. Reflect on your gratefulness for these week spent in the Psalms of Ascent as well as your desire to grow in discerning His presence day by day. Express those reflections to God in prayer or simply walk in silence, knowing that He is present and aware of all your reflections.