The two disciples have just come back from Emmaus full of excitement about their experience of meeting the Risen Jesus on the road and breaking bread with Him in the house. The other disciples are listening with a mixture of wonder and scepticism when Jesus Himself comes among them wishing them 'Peace!'. Their first reaction is superstitious fear at the appearance of a ghost, but a ghost they are told to touch and feel. Fear changes to ecstatic joy so that they even forget to offer Him some food. They are told now to reflect on all that went before and to understand that all the terrible things that happened to Jesus were all meant to happen. This, they will now understand, was how God convinced the world of His enormous love for every one of us. And that is the message they are now being told to bring to the world. A message that will be most convincing when it is lived out in the way we live our own lives. Do people see God's self-giving love in the way I relate with them?