The middle-aged man wanted to weep in frustration as the optometrist reminded him yet again that as we get older we cannot have the vision we had when we were younger. She explained, “We can correct with contacts so that you can see distances clearly and get reading glasses for you to see close work; or we can compromise to let you see some distance and some close work with just contacts and occasional glasses, but we cannot get a perfect set of contacts or glasses that will fit all situations for you. You will simply have to learn to use contacts and glasses together and adjust like everyone else at your age.” “But I can’t see well with these contacts!” he cried. “And I can’t stand taking the glasses on and off and then leaving them at the office and losing them at home.” “Buy more glasses,” she said. “They’re not very expensive.” He replied, “That’s not the point. I want to see what I want to see when I want to see it — without any of this bother of finding the right pair of glasses.”

Obstacles to seeing

            The two disciples on the road to Emmaus did not have the right pair of glasses to see the stranger who joined them. We should note that it wasn’t completely their fault. Luke tells us that “their eyes were kept from recognizing” the one who was walking with them. Perhaps the passive voice of the sentence points to a Someone, God, who has blocked their power of recognition, their ability to see. But surely there were other things that interfered with their vision that day. The shattering gri

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