![]() She is thirsty for water that is more than water. She does not understand what this water is, but she is thirsty for it. ![]() While naïve and uninitiated, she tells Jesus that whatever this is, she wants this water. Jesus uses this to tell her that there is water that will make her thirsty again, and than there is living water form which she will never be thirsty again. Jesus meets her there, and asks her for a drink. ![]() Near the beginning, a woman comes to the well in Samaria, who has been married five times and is living with a man not her husband. Jesus poured out water to wash the disciples feet, the quintessential act of servanthood. Those entering the kingdom of heaven are born of “water and spirit” (Jn. John, a master story-teller, makes use of the theme of water and thirst throughout his Gospel. Not surprisingly, there is a persistent image of water in Scripture as a source of cleansing, purifying, and revitalizing. It is no stretch of the imagination that we can say that water is life. ![]() ![]() The human body is about 50-80% water, and doctors recommend that a person drink about 2 litres of water a day to be healthy. Here is the archetypal river of life, fountain of salvation. From the clay of this stream the first man was molded, from its water Eden was irrigated, and from there, the text says, out of the garden the stream became four great rivers. In the beginning as Genesis two tells us, there was a stream that bubbled up and watered the earth. ![]()
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