Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. So small this tiny piece of moss on the side of a tree covered in snow, only about an inch in length. On the day I took the image it was cloudy and cold and so quiet. Few people were in the mountains that day. Each melting drop of snow looks like a many faceted diamond. So beautiful was this tiny piece of moss yet it would be noticed by hardly anyone. Here it is in all its quiet and extravagant beauty.
John, in his gospel, refers to the miracles of Jesus as signs, for signs point to something, describe something. The first sign that John describes is the turning of water into wine at a wedding in Cana. It tells us much about Jesus. It was a quiet miracle, not done on the temple grounds in Jerusalem but at a wedding in Cana, done quietly in the service of others. I find Jesus more often when I sit in quietness And it was so extravagant, it wasn’t just a bottle of wine, but 180 gallons. According to one commentary, based on the price of $30 a bottle of wine this would be worth some $27,000. Jesus’s love for us is as extravagant as the value of this wine as we see when he drinks the cup the Father set before in the Garden of Getheseme and made his way to the cross. He loves each one of us with an extravagant love even though in light of the vase universe we are as small as the snow covered moss. Prayer Jesus Come to us today in quietness, for there are no words for such extravagant love. Show us your glory and help us to believe in you as your disciples did that day. Open our eyes to your beauty. Amen
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