With those storied words, author Eric Segal began his best-selling novel, Love Story. In striking yet poetic phrases, Segal unveiled the tragic tale of a love story interrupted by the exigencies of life and the mystery of death. Real love stories are not the emotionally charged, dynamic affairs we see in the movies or on the pages of novels. Authentic love stories are penned by God’s hand. Two people coming together to love, nurture, and sustain one another amid the tumult, uncertainty, and unpredictability of life. In the coming days, our Salem family will celebrate love stories that found life through the touch of God’s hand. Nest week we will recall with great joy and gratitude the over seven decade love story of Emma and Jess, Grandma and Grandpa. This Sunday we will all witness Sharon Anderson and Dwight Boyd enter into covenant with one another and God to live as husband and wife. These are love stories that will never make the best sellers list, win an Oscar, and be memorialized in popular culture. No, these love stories have and will reveal God’s grace as lived out and witnessed in very human yet very blessed lives. Now that is genuinely Good News. Blessings, Pastor Tom John 2: 1-11 Three days later there was a wedding in the village of Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. Jesus and his disciples were guests also. When they started running low on wine at the wedding banquet, Jesus’ mother told him, “They’re just about out of wine.” Jesus said, “Is that any of our business, Mother—yours or mine? This isn’t my time. Don’t push me.” She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, “Whatever he tells you, do it.” Six stoneware water pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus ordered the servants, “Fill the pots with water.” And they filled them to the brim. “Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host,” Jesus said, and they did. When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn’t know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom, “Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill brings in the cheap stuff. But you’ve saved the best till now!” This act in Cana of Galilee was the first sign Jesus gave, the first glimpse of his glory. And his disciples believed in him. Comments are closed.
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