“Jesus answered and said to her, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water... Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst. The water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Do yourself a favor. Open your bible to chapter 4 of John’s gospel and live the scene of Jesus and the Samaritan woman. Discover the gentle invitation of Jesus, opening her heart to what He wanted for her.
Listen closely to the conversation, perhaps her initial fear, a stranger violating the customary protocol, and gradually she discovers herself, and Christ. ‘Come and see a man who has told me everything I have done.’
May the living water, God’s grace this Lent well up in me, bringing forgiveness in reconciliation, and strength in the Eucharist.