The Plain Water of My Life--Jan. 7, 2015

[From Jan. 7, 2011 archive]

O Lord,

My heart says, seek your face; your face do I seek.

Do not hide your face from me.

You know my works, and my toil, and how

little I accomplish on my own.

Teach me to know your name, that it is you who speak,

and that you are with me;

for then you can take the plain water of my life

and turn it into good wine.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 46; 147:1-11; 27; 93

Isa. 52:3-6

Rev. 2:1-7

John 2:1-11

Selected Verses

Ps. 27:8-9a

“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!”
            Your face, LORD, do I seek. 

            Do not hide your face from me.

Isa. 52:6

Therefore my people shall know my name; therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here am I.  [The LORD speaking through the prophet]

Rev. 2:2a

“I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance.  …"  [Words of one like the Son of Man, to the angel of the church in Ephesus]

John 2:9-10

When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk.  But you have kept the good wine until now.”