The miracle at the wedding at Cana in Galilee demonstrates that when God sees people suffering scarcity his response is to renew, restore, replenish, with extraordinary generosity, loving us with just the same intensity of love that a newly-wed couple have for each other. God invites us to respond to this great love by using our resources to live generously towards others. This can sound scary, the prospect of helping other people suffering scarcity by giving bits of ourselves away. But let’s think about it in terms of how newly-weds enter the experience of marriage prepared to give something of themselves away for the sake of the other in the partnership. Let’s think of how that bit of self-sacrifice brings so many greater benefits to them and those around them in growing love and mutual flourishing.

A talk and prayers for The Second Sunday of Epiphany, 16 January 2022. 

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