The miracle astounds (turning water into wine), but it is commonplace in the fathers from Augustine to Luther that creation abounds in miracles all the time, and the problem with us is that we get used to them - we stop marveling at them. It's a miracle that water from the clouds is sucked up through the grapevine and kissed by the sun to produce wine for us. In this Gospel, Jesus does in a short period of time and without means of the grapevine what He does all the time in nature. But the father's see of the miracle is a beautiful picture also of how Jesus takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary.
For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: (1 Corinthians 15:3a)
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
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