Reflection for January 8

Epiphany is the season of looking outward; it is the season when the mysterious visitors from the East come and pay homage to the Christ Child. It is the season of our Lord’s Baptism, when the identity of our Lord is affirmed in the words from the Father. It is the season of the transformation of the ordinary into extraordinary - water into wine - at the wedding in Cana…. Let us all live into the theology of this season - a theology that welcomes the other, a theology that witnesses to the significance of Christ, and a theology that believes God can take ordinary human beings and use us to create an amazing party to which all are invited (The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Dean and President, Virginia Theological Seminary).