A third theme we pick up in the preceding weeks is the first miracle that Jesus performs, the miracle of turning the water into wine at the wedding celebration. These three things are all understood to be epiphanies, that is, to be revelations or manifestations of the divinity of Jesus. They are all happenings that were remembered as people listed their ideas of why Jesus was important. They pointed to these three events-Jesus' birth, Jesus' baptism, the visit of the Magi and Jesus' first miracle. Those epiphanies are important to our life of faith.
Epiphanies require change on our part.
Sometimes change is something that we would prefer to leave behind, especially if we're comfortable in our lives. Epiphanies are new revelations that challenge. New things that we learn, and it's impossible for us to learn something new and not be changed. If we're not changed by something that happens to us, we haven't learned anything new. So we go through our lives, we have experiences and those experiences change us.