Water and wine
Always on the brink of drought and fruitlessness, we
reach with arms and hearts for
water -
water to sustain, water to purify.
We know only this until
You look on us with love and reveal that You
are the Rock from which flows living water, and You say,
“Come to Me.”
And then You show that this water can
flow deep within.
Cana’s drought of wine
might abrupt the feast, and Your time is not yet come, but
You are eager to give in full measure, pressed down,
running over -
the water of our sustenance,
the water of our cleansing,
the water of our offering,
becomes the richest wine,
the wine of celebration,
the wine of joy.
Because of the eagerness of Your love,
Your time, which has not yet come -
the glorious Feast, which is our eternal Wedding -
is NOW.
The Bridegroom is here.
Let us surrender with joy.
