He explained the Scriptures for seven miles before they recognized Him.
Books and letters for people still walking to Emmaus.
Get the lettersThe road is hard and long. He gives bread for the next mile.
Two friends walked out of Jerusalem on the worst afternoon of their lives. A Stranger fell in beside them and asked what had happened. He explained the Scriptures to them the whole way, and they knew Him only when He broke the bread. Then they got up that same hour and walked the seven miles back in the dark, to tell the others.
Bread for the Road is written from that stretch. The books and the letters are for people carrying wounds and questions that have not closed, by a man still walking it. More about the road, and about me.
The letters
Once a month, one idea written to stand alone, in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.
- God did not do this to teach you something
The sentences kind believers say at gravesides and hospital beds, why each one breaks in the hand, and the one picture of God against which every reason offered to you can be tested.
- A cry is still a prayer
A third of the psalms are complaint. The angry prayers you have been swallowing are already in the Bible, given by God to be prayed, and there is a psalm that ends in the dark for the nights when you do too.
- You can forgive someone and still keep the door locked
We ask one word to carry five different decisions. Pulled apart, they show that a person can forgive before God and still keep a locked door, a police report and her distance.
The books
Six books, being written in the open. None of them is finished. Each one says so.
- The Wounded Companion
For the person a wounded person turns to.
- The Wounded Pilgrim
You are not broken. You are wounded. There is a difference, and it matters.
- The Wounded Covenant
The wounds we bring into a marriage, the ones we inflict inside it, and healing together with Jesus.
- Whose Voice Is This?
A thought is not a choice. Fear can borrow God's name. How to tell the voices apart.
- Fire in the Pew
Does God still do anything? On the gifts given to all, kept honest.
- Even This
No explanation for your suffering. Help first, offering after, and the God who stays.
Walk with us
The letters go out once a month. They will not try to close what does not close. They will keep you company on the road, and point as honestly as I can to the One who walks it with you.
You do not have to arrive tonight. He is walking at your pace.