Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison.

Today's scripture offers us a wiser way of being human as we step into the day.

There are moments when you look around and realize, I just don't have what this moment requires.

Maybe it's your energy. Maybe it's your hope. Maybe it's your capacity to show up meaningfully for someone else. Maybe it's your energy. Maybe it's your hope. Maybe it's your capacity to show up

meaningfully for someone else. Maybe it's your joy. The moment is requiring you to keep going,

to keep hosting, to keep leading, to keep parenting, to keep smiling, to keep making things work.

But inside, something has run out of gas. Today's passage takes place at a wedding, a scene that should

be full of celebration, abundance, and delight. But behind the scenes, a bit of a crisis is unfolding.

The wine has run out. And in that culture, this wasn't just an inconvenience. It was a source of

shame. A wedding fees could last several days, and running out of wine would have been humiliating for the family.

It would have exposed a lack, a failure, an inability to provide what the moment called for.

So as you listen to today's passage, I invite you to listen for the tenderness of Jesus in that moment,

not only in the miracle itself, but in the way he responds to a

hidden need. Today's passage is John 2, 1 through 11. On the third day, a wedding took place at

Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited

to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him,

They have no more wine.

Woman, why do you involve me? Jesus replied.

My hour has not yet come.

But his mother said to the servants, do whatever he tells you.

Nearby stood six stone water jars,

the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,

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