- Reading: John 4.6 - 15
- Reading: John 4.16 – 30
- Short Address
Wells are significant places in the Bible, and many important meetings
took place at wells.
Jacob's Well, located in modern-day Palestine, is the most famous well
in the Bible.
Maria, who lives in a small island in El Salvador, has to travel to the
mainland every day to fetch water because there is no mains water on her
island.
Many women in low-income countries have to do this kind of work every
day.
In the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman, both were
thirsty and had to act to quench their thirst.
The physical and spiritual aspects of our lives are intertwined and
essential to our well-being.
The American theologian Sally McFague believed that the interconnection
of our souls and bodies brings us life in all its fullness.
We should value both physical and spiritual water as essential to our
life and well-being.
We should recognize and accept everyone as brother and sister, as well
as being accepted as a child of God.
We should be thirsty for the Water of Life. - Followed by 2 or 3 minutes of quiet reflection on these questions:
- Do we welcome and value both the physical water and the
spiritual water as essential to our life and well-being?
- What do they teach us about recognising and accepting
everyone as brother and sister?
- What do we learn for ourselves about being accepted as
brother or sister, and a child of God?
- Are we thirsty for the water of life?
