27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
October 3, 2009
The Wine Ran Out
“I do!!” “I do!!
We promise
to love each other
until the end of time.
And to insure
The keeping of those promises
we plan to do
these seven simple things:
to use the names we were given at our birth,
or the ones we discovered in the unfolding of our love,
and never “him” or “her”
when we are but an arm’s length away.
to look at each other when we speak
for eyes say
more than
words can ever say;
to listen carefully
when we speak
for words get richer
with experience;
to share our feelings
with notes in ink
to be put between the pages of a book,
or in a tiny silver box;
to find a hilltop
this time each year
and review together
the memories we have made;
to dance
in a crowded room
and feel
that no one else is there,
to build memorials to our sacred times
with red and yellow roses
or the touch of finger tips
across a table top.
We promise to
love tenderly
for it is our life’s gift
to each other,
and it is
the greatest gift
we can give to those
who are given unto us.
If at times
we lose sight of this
we’ll remember
and the day the wine ran out,
and how Jesus touched the
water in
the jars
the stewards brought
and wine,
deep red,
flowed tastier
than before.
He was there
as a blessing to their love
and is here
as a blessing to ours.
We’ll ask him
to keep an eye
on things,
and if the wine is running low,
to step right up,
touch us on the shoulder,
and remind us of
the promises we made,
and of the seven simple ways
we planned to use
to insure
the fulfillment of our promises.