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OUR DAILY BREAD July 29, 2018 Sunday HOPE IN GRIEF Amy Boucher Pye Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. Luke 24:31 Luke 24:13–32 Psalms 49–50; Romans 1 When I was nineteen, one of my close friends was killed in a car accident. In the following weeks and months, I walked each day in a tunnel of grief. The pain of losing someone so young and wonderful clouded my vision, and at times I even felt unaware of what was going on around me. I felt so blinded by pain and grief that I simply could not see God. In Luke 24, two disciples, confused and brokenhearted after Jesus’s death, didn’t realize they were walking with their resurrected Teacher Himself, even as He explained from Scripture why the promised Savior had to die and rise again. Only when He took bread and broke it was it revealed that this was Jesus (vv. 30–31). Although the followers of Jesus had faced death in all its horror when Jesus died, through H...