2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Epiphany 2), Year C

Our goal is to create a beloved community, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
~John 2:11
 
Watch for the details in this wedding story! It happens at the party—not the ceremony—near the end, when many have already had a little too much, when most have already stopped paying attention. It is a frivolous act, this the first of Jesus’ signs of the kindom. And it means everything. Don’t look away. The servants don’t. They are in on the act from the beginning. They know. The steward, the wedding party, they have no idea what or even that anything unusual has happened, that God’s glory has been revealed. And still they are blessed!
 
Many of us are shaped to imagine we are the ones in the know, but there is extraordinary knowledge to be gained as we learn how to listen more deeply and to voices so often silenced in our company. A variety of gifts. One Spirit. Learn to listen. Listen to learn. Be a partner to the gifts of the Spirit all around.
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Isaiah 62:1-5 † Psalm 36:5-10 † 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 † John 2:1-11
 
About the Art: Swanson, John August. Wedding Feast, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58581 [retrieved January 3, 2022]. Original source: www.JohnAugustSwanson.com - copyright 1996 by John August Swanson.

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