The Road to Independence
Luke 24:13-35
TRANSlation
A TransPreacher Paraphrase
On that same day, two of them were walking from Cleveland toward Independence, talking with each other about everything that had happened, the heartbreak, the confusion, the rumors spreading through their community. One of them was named Cleo, and the other walked beside them in quiet disbelief.
As they talked and questioned, a woman joined up and walked with them, but they did not recognize her. Her body had changed, her presence was both familiar and entirely new, radiant in a way they couldn’t receive.
She asked them, “What are you discussing with such intensity?”
They stood still, sadness written across their faces. Cleo asked, “Are you the only one around here who doesn’t know what’s been happening in Cleveland these past few days?”
“What things?” she asked.
They replied, “About Jesse of Newark, who was a civil rights advocate, and how the DHS arrested her, how everything we hoped for is gone. We believed she would bring real change. …
