Awhile ago, there was a calendar featuring handsome guys doing vacuuming and dishes, and basically being every wife’s dream husband. Guys might call it a fantasy, but, to be brutally honest, it does illustrate how different life can be if a person is so much “one” with the other that they choose to anticipate their needs and desires without even asking.
Isaiah says God feels this way about us: “The Lord takes delight in you. As the bridegroom rejoices in his bride, so will your God rejoice in you.” God even calls us “My Delight.” Today the gospel shows us two examples of unity and oneness. The first is Mary’s sensitivity and compassion for the poor young couple at the Cana
wedding feast.
Mary has such a oneness with her beloved son, Jesus, that she confidently tells him the problem. Even though he says he’s not planning to work a miracle, Mary is so confident of his understanding of the situation that she simply tells the
servants, “do whatever he tells you.”
Secondly, Jesus has such a radical unity with God and the whole of creation that Jesus does not even need to look at the water jars or do or say anything special. Jesus directs his intention to the end results in such a way as to change the physical reality of water into wine. Jesus uses his will to do Mary’s will.
In our friendships and in our marriages do we use our wills to delight the other person? To show them how God feels about them? Simple acts of love—kind words, taking the burden off in small ways, thinking ahead… Just as Mary and Jesus used their intimacy to bring peace to others by their acts of trust and
confidence in each other, may we use our wills to do God’s will.