Beds Flooded With Tears--March 14, 2011

In Japan, beds flooded with tears, drenched with weeping.
In Libya, freedom fighters weary from moaning their loss.
In the world, so much hunger, sickness, oppression, death.

God, who for your people made water flow from flint rock
and fed them in the wilderness, in the end to do them good,
be with all who suffer; let your love become their comfort.

Jesus showed your love by sharing with us flesh and blood,
that through his death he might destroy the power of death.
As he transformed water, can you turn suffering into wine?

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6
Deut. 8:1-20
Heb. 2:11-18
John 2:1-12

Selected Verses
Ps. 6:6
I am weary with my moaning;
      every night I flood my bed with tears;
      I drench my couch with my weeping.

Deut. 8:15b-16
The LORD made water flow for you from flint rock, and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good.

Heb. 2:14
Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, [Jesus] himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil…

John 2:7-9a
Jesus said to [the servants], “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.” So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine…