When we’re focused on a task like finding our keys or scanning the grocery shelves for one specific item, our brain quietly filters out everything else. Psychologists call it inattentional blindness. It isn’t a flaw; it’s simply how we’re wired. But it means that when we are really focused, we can walk right past something important. Or someone important.

The disciples on the road to Emmaus knew that feeling. They walked with Jesus for miles without recognizing him, not because they were inept, but because they were heading home, carrying their grief, and didn’t expect resurrection to meet them on an ordinary road.

Looking forward to this Sunday when the risen Christ will meet us again.

Father Karl