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A prayer to remember where our help comes from by Maggie Meadows Cooper, read by Leah Martin.

I look up to the mountains.

Does my help come from there?

My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth, Psalm 121-1.

Over the years, there have been many people in places that we turn to when we need help.

Facebook friends, dear Abby, Google, our moms, but so often, in spite of good intentions,

their advice leaves us longing for more.

Many times, the advice hurts more than helps, and sometimes, they're simply dead wrong.

So why do we choose them?

Convenience, proximity, or maybe a secret hope that they will tell us what we want to hear?

All possible reasons that each of us can identify with, I think.

But when Mary was faced with a problem and needed help in John 2-3, she turned to the

only one who could be her helper that day.

The only one is the helper we all need, Jesus.

Mary, Jesus and the disciples were attending a wedding in Cana and the hosts ran out of wine.

According to their culture and that time in history, they risked great humiliation.

Mary called Jesus for help and told the servants to do whatever he tells you.

And Jesus performed his first public miracle, turning water into wine.

If only our problems were that simple to solve, right?

But maybe they are.

The truth is, their problem was resolved because of two simple choices.

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