Maybe the trauma of your past haunts you. Maybe thoughts of your future depress you. Maybe the reality of your present experience feels empty. Nothing feels certain, no one feels safe. John 4 is the story ofJesus encountering someone in that very place-a woman who is the recipient of cultural prejudice, relational shame and religious frustration. Jesus offers her a drink of living water; something that will quench her thirst forever, something that will satisfy in a way nothing and no one else can