Have you ever been MADLY in love?

Sunday, January 17, 2010

For as many times as I may have heard the readings read at Mass today, today I heard something differently. The Gospel reading was about the wedding at Cana –

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Gospel
Jn 2:1-11
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.”

His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.”

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.”

So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.”

So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from — although the servers who had drawn the water knew —, the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; buy you have kept the good wine until now.”

Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs at Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him. (NAB)

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What really struck me … what I heard more clearly this time is that what God offers, what Jesus (God in the form of a man) offers, is better than anything man can offer on his own, even better than what nature can offer on its own (even though nature may often more effortlessly and more truly reflect and cooperate with God’s will). What God offers is better, notably so.

It is not difficult imagining those there present, those whose taste buds had not yet numbed, wondering “Where did THIS wine come from? This wine is the BEST wine.” Yet it had come from water, dirty water.

Have you ever been madly in love with someone? Madly in love with your spouse; madly in love with a boyfriend; madly in love with a girlfriend; madly in love with a newborn son or newborn daughter; madly in love with YOUR child.

When you are madly in love you want to share with the object of that affection what’s best … your best … THE best!

God is madly in love with you …