A Place of Real Miracles

Day 22 Doxology: Welcome to today's doxology. After such great response from so many about yesterday's post, I feel pressured to represent more than ever.  However, in the true Lenten form...it was hard to feel today's collusion of God and Earth...until I sat in silence going through a series of images from this afternoon -a wedding celebration at our church.

Today was a full day of celebration for one of our own, her new husband, and her family.  It started with unlocking the church at 8 a.m. for the cupcakes and cake to be delivered.  A decorator and a cook was there with coffee in hand.  Then more tables were to be picked up, put together, and decorated.  All of this and the wedding wasn't until 2 p.m.  The church was alive, and so many were buzzing around with their job to do.

The wedding was beautiful!  Something about a bride and groom professing their love joined with God -before God- that seems to be a doxology all its own, but still...that wasn't it!

After the wedding, the celebration was on.  I stood near the wall and watched.  I watched the kids waiting for the moment they could be turned loose on the cupcakes, I watch the older woman with shoulder-less dresses cringe when the A/C cycled on.  I watch so many worker bees from our church fill and refill the food and drinks used up by the guest.  It was so noticeable and worthy of praise that the mother of the bride praised God for the "Body of Christ" that has helped so much.

It was about that time that I went upstairs and from the balcony took this picture, and it was this picture that made me pause and thank God for his grace!

Many of you remember that it was at a wedding that Jesus began his ministry.  His mom said, do it. He said, it's not time, and Jesus then went on to turn water into wine.  What is it about a wedding celebration that would make Jesus reconsider the launch of His ministry?  Could it be the people?

This post wedding celebration happened to take place in our church gym.  The family and friends spent hours turning this sweaty place of play into a celebratory launch for a couple into the world as one.  The moment didn't speak to my heart like the picture did hours later...it's not the space that is holy, but the people.  It's not the marriage that is instantaneously holy but what they do with vows they pledge.  And, just like that imperfect gym floor that was transformed into a beautiful space for celebration and miracles, our bodies are also imperfect waiting to be that beautiful space for Christ to dwell...it's a place of real miracles!  Praise God, because you are today's doxology!