Lectio and Jesus and the Samaritan Woman- Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God John 4:10 This Gospel fragment forms part of the dialogue between our Lord and the Samaritan Woman which is given in the fourth chapter of the Gospel According to St John. The more famous second half of the sentence goes like this ...and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” A great deal has been said about the living water and rightly so but we are in danger of overlooking an important point if we focus too exclusively on it. What Jesus gives us in this sentence is a model for contemplation, of the gift, acting as a springboard for action, asking, which produces a reaction, He would have given. We live in an active world and contemplation is often sidelined as unnecessary or even self-indulgent but here it is presented as foundational to developing and enriching our relationship with God and moving it out from the purely personal into the realm of practical activity be it ever so small.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:47:16 +0000
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