Christ Jesus, transform the water of my being to become the wine of your being…

                                                                    
John 2:1-12

 
Jesus’ first miracle, when he turned water into wine, is a pre-figuring of all the transformative work he completed during his ministry on earth and that he continues to flow into us and through our lives, when we make ourselves available. Whether we call it healing, or releasing, or nurturing, or creating, all of the work of Christ Jesus continues to be creative and miraculous – and as common, silent, and flowing as water or wine at a feast.  Just as a small amount of water, representing Jesus’ own, and our own, humanity is poured into the chalice of wine for consecration, so we can understand that the water in the clay jars at the wedding of Cana represents us as human souls standing by, and being willing to be transformed and spilled out for the purposes of God’s love.  We, like the water that was turned into wine, can be vitally participatory in the sweeping, silent and saving work of the Holy Spirit of Jesus in this world. The saving work of Christ Jesus, in one miraculous hidden moment can change and redeem a wedding feast, a whole community and even on solitary soul. Will I let the ordinary ‘water’ of my being be turned quietly into the ‘wine’ of God’s being to flow into the world around me?  Christ Jesus, transform the water of my being to become the wine of your being.
 
Purify our hearts from every evil desire, make us intent on doing your will.  (Intercessions, Morning Prayer, Thursday, Week III, Shorter Christian Prayer)
 
Lord you have my heart, and I will search for yours,
Jesus, take my life and lead me on.
Lord you have my heart, and I will search for yours,
Let me be to you a sacrifice. And I will praise you Lord.
And I will sing of love come down. And as you show your face, 
We'll see your glory here! 
Martin James Smith
 
 
See  a beautiful  “Chosen” version of the Miracle of  Water Being Turned Into Wine at
https://youtu.be/ym-5QPYiBso
 
Soli ad gloriam
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