Waiting to Be Transformed: wine for a thirsty world

Sermon preached at St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, Virginia, on the Second Sunday of Epiphany, January 20, 2013, by the Rev. Benson Shelton. Gospel is John 2:1-11. Reference is to Martin Luther King Jr.'s sermon,“Transformed Non-Conformist,” 1954. Also, see Nietzsche,F. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (Thomas Common, trans ), p 123 “Ye know only the sparks of the spirit but ye do not see the anvil which it is, and the cruelty of its hammer!” See also Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1892), ch. VII.