Monday, January 23, 2006

The Medication of the soul

Found a wonderful thin place in church this morning - a choral eucharist - choir again so helpful to enable mere mortals like me to engage the mystery for a while...

great sermon on the wedding where the wine ran out and Jesus gets pressured from a typical Jewish ma to kick start his career as God.... lovely moment when my priest talked of the significance of why there were 6 water pots rather than say 7 or 2 or even just 1. The beloved one of the twelve uses numbers to signify such a wonderful truth of grace.... 7 is the complete number - 6 is the human number attributed to to all that is ordinary (and even evil 666) - but here John sees that the carpenter in his first miracle says that the purposes of the divine are worked out through knackered, incompetent, flawed, inconsistent pilgrims like you and me... was one of the most kind sermons I've heard, and it's not often you hear a sermon described as kind.... sadly, but I do like the idea that God still manages to get things done inspite of us rather than because of us...

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