Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

The 1933 hit song “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and the more recent Grammy Award winning record of the same name, may well remind us of the lonely moments in life when we feel utterly lost, and alone.

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone (-1)

We read in today’s Gospel that the “very same day” it was discovered that the tomb was empty, two of the disciples, feeling very much alone, “were on their way to a village called Emmaus, and they were talking together about all that had happened. Now, as they talked this over, Jesus himself came…