i will worship only the god of wine.

from Miracles of Fertility.

The earliest of these was the conversion of water into wine and the wedding feast in Cana. This miracle proclaims that the God of wine is present. The vine is one of the blessings sent by Yahweh: He is the reality behind the false god Bacchus. Every year, as part of the Natural order, God makes wine. He does so by creating a vegetable organism that can turn water, soil, and sunlight into a juice which will, under proper conditions, become wine. Thus, in a certain sense, He constantly turns water into wine, for wine, like all drinks, is but water modified. Once, and in one year only, God, now incarnate, short-circuits the process: makes wine in a moment: uses earthenware jars instead of vegetable fibers to hold the water. But uses them to do what He is always doing. The Miracle consists in the shortcut; but the event to which it leads is the usual one. If the thing happened, then we know that what has come into Nature is no anti-Natural spirit, no God who loves tragedy, and tears, and fasting for their own sake (however He may permit or demand them for special purposes) but the God of Israel who has through all these centuries given us wine to gladen the heart of man.

C.S. Lewis

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i believe that god delights in wine, and our partaking of it. and in tuesday night supper clubs where we are able to take pleasure in simplicities like good food, friends, and...wine. and lots of it. because god knows life is hard enough as it is. amen.