Wedding in Cana

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they remained there a few days. John 2:1-12

We are vacationing in the one place I call home, and yet no longer in our family home. Our oldest grandchild is with us and we are showing her all the wonders of this place. It has been an amazing gift for me to see the very familiar through young eyes, beholding each moment as a new experience. It's a small, new miracle to experience things anew. Sometimes, we have to remove ourselves and put ourselves in new circumstances to witness the miracles around us.

Jesus is a bystander, a family guest at a wedding when his mother puts him to work. He doesn't feel ready for his calling but she insists. We know how mothers and parents can be. Yet this first miracle happened out of necessity and in an alien land. Not in the temple, but among the people, the family. We are invited to seek ways to witness and celebrate the miracles around us, in the every day and in alien places.

Today, I ask God to help me see the miracles around me and to celebrate the small wonders of the everyday. May we see the world with the eyes of children, so that we may delight in God's many gifts and miracles.