The Woman at the Well is a familiar Bible story. (John 4) Nothing simple about it. Christ needed to go through Samaria, needed water, woman drawing water, he asked for a drink and she gave it. People do stuff like that every day, right! Wrong!
Jesus asked for water from an unclean woman in an unclean land. He did the unexpected. He took his message to people who would receive it. He knew what he was doing before he did it and he did it in spite of other people's ideas of what was okay! She responded to him and spread the word to everyone!
Wonder what would happen if we all just did what our heart tells us to do. Yesterday we were shocked at the conciliatory tone between President Obama and Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey. Opposites but they reached out over the nasty partisanship of this election and worked together, even praised each other. It made national headlines.
Christ, by his example, taught us that there are no boundaries when there are people in need. And all of us are people in need! Go thou and do likewise--the commandment is for me!
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