Where is Your Joy? Where is Your Sorrow? - Tim Knipp (Who is Jesus series)

A sense of dislocation,
loss, 
injustice.
Moments of elation
and peace.
Scientific anomalies
or hints of greater purpose?

Feasts and celebration,
our inheritance
and promise -
the wedding festival
symbolic of the joining
of God and man,
when pain and death
will be forever banished.
In Cana,
a literal wedding feast faltered
and the figurative trembled
at the ominous
foreshadowing: wine as blood -
the hour
of 
death.

Stone jars,
unadorned and ordinary,
were filled. Alchemy transformed water
to well-aged wine
in overflowing abundance
to jump-start the celebration.

Our God is a joy-bringer
who created us for happiness,
a warrior against 
agony, betrayal
and all sorrow -
those enemies of our souls.
Each rising of hope
and sparkle of delight
has significance,
scattered like spangled stars
to light our way
back 
Home.

John 2;1-11 Isa. 25:6-8

John 2;1-11 Isa. 25:6-8