(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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God bless
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No rope, no bucket!
Jesus was a master at breaking the ice. Disregarding long years of mutual antipathy between the Jews and the Samaritans, He was the one to open the conversation with the stupefied Samaritan woman. As Jesus quickly sublimates the dialogue from the physical to the spiritual, the woman is left behind. She asks a pedestrian question.
Even after the exchanges continue for a while in the same distichous fashion, the woman is none the wiser until Jesus stuns her with the imperative: “Go and get your husband”.
“You will never thirst again”
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* 11 May, setting 1 January as Day 1