More than we expect

In our church calendar the Gospel reading for today relates the story of the wedding at Cana. It is a familiar story to Christians but its very familiarity can obscure one of its main points and that is, that God’s methods are unfamiliar to us. Through the prophet Isaiah the Lord told His people

“ my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways My ways.” Nevertheless knowing a thing intellectually is very different from experiencing it. John Henry Newman said that experiencing god’s work within the world is, for humans, like waiting and listening for a clock to strike, and yet when it...