Until Now

What do we do when the ledger of life does not add up? When the righteous and the wicked seem to meet the same end, and the table looks empty? The ancient Teacher of Ecclesiastes wrestled with exactly this, and his answer was not despair but a command: eat, drink, love, and work with all your might, because God approved of our joy long before we ever pulled up a chair. This message draws us into that ancient wisdom and then carries us forward to a wedding in Cana, where four quiet words spoken by a mother -- they have no wine -- set in motion the first sign of something the Teacher could not have seen coming. The parallels between Ecclesiastes and the wedding at Cana are striking and deeply human. Both acknowledge the emptiness. Both refuse to let it have the final word. Together they form an unexpected conversation across centuries about what it means to celebrate life honestly, without pretending the darkness is not real, and without letting the darkness decide when the pouring stops.