Open mine eyes…
For various reasons, I had the opportunity to spend a considerable amount of study time with the Road to Emmaus story this week (Luke 24:13-35, in case you want to read it), and it has set me to pondering further some things that, well, I have been pondering. As I was reading from various commentaries, I was struck by one particular comment: that, in the eyes of this analyst, one of the signs of a good story (particular a story written to instruct and guide) is that it is incomplete -- there are lots of "spaces" in the tale, allowing we the readers of that tale to fill in the…
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