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1 Corinthians, Cana, church, gifts, Isaiah, John, lectionary, miracles, religion, spirituality, theology
If anything, in the end we will be vindicated. It doesn’t matter what or who we are. No one is more important than another. This also goes into the idea of who shall be protected. Hearing that just isn’t right. Everyone is equal, especially in God’s eyes. “But what about “so-and-so?” people continue to ask. Someone will always come and replace him or her.
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians goes into better detail about the subject Isaiah talked about. The world would be a boring place if everyone was the same. There would be no interesting conversations to participate in, no interesting books to read. We all need differences and difficulties to grow. How else can we unless we do something we are unfamiliar with.
The gospel for the week is from John. With the beginning of Advent we moved into the third year for the lectionary. And with a new year we also move to a different gospel. This particular Sunday we read the wedding at cana episode from John’s point of view. We see the subject of gifts come up once again. In Corinthians it was the spiritual gifts God gives us. In Cana it was much less dramatic in that it was the physical gift of wine. God always does things opposite from what we want. Why bring out the best wine at the end when no one is able to enjoy it? Maybe because Jesus wanted to do that anyway, to enjoy in the fact that even though the people were drunk, they could still have some semblance of knowing that it was good.
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