Today's Gospel gives us the story of the miracle at the wedding feast. Michael Card has a nice song (he does great lyrics) with a line about this to the effect that Jesus was thinking of his own wedding--to us, his Church!
I've been thinking, after a conversation (by phone and e-mail) with Sr. Bernadette, about the jars of water. All God needs is six jars of water, and he can work a transformation. We can be those jars of water; I pray to be such a jar of water to effect the transformations I pray for in the circumstances that surround me, in the situations in society that are crying out for intervention, in the terrible lack of peace on earth that seems to be the hallmark of Satan's action.
Speaking with someone else recently, I was told that there is a branch or line of fundamentalist biblical interpretation that believes that Christians are (get this) actually to foment war, to bring about Armageddon. As if we needed to invent sources of conflict, or have first recourse to violence, in order to force God's hand and "make" Jesus come again! Has anyone else ever come across this kind of thinking? It certainly seems to be the way our government is operating--which would make me long for a genuinely secular government, directed by an authentic humanism!
So to be instruments of God's peace, even if we are only jars of water...
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