John 4:4-14 NIV
Now he had to go through Samaria. So, he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, Will you give me a drink? (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
The Samaritan woman said to him, You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?
(For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.
Sir, the woman said, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?
Jesus answered, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
Woman
Walking
in the searing sunlight
Glare stinging my eyes
with sudden tears
Behind the fortress walls
of surrounding houses
They surely watch
I can barely raise
one foot after another
Dust chokes
my dry mouth
This pot, my burden
Unfilled,
like a dead weight
on my body.
I walk
this daily walk
of torment
I walk
Alone
It has been
for such a long time now
Must it always be so?
The Well
Today I met him
such a man
as I have longed to meet
for all my life
Today I met him, I
will never be the same again.
Today I talked to him
such a man
as I have longed to talk to
all my life
A man who talked with me
as if he had known me
all my life
Today he looked at me
He smiled at me
as no-one else has ever done before
He knew my sin
and yet
he took my cup
Joy unquenchable
fills me
Messiah
I will speak his words
throughout the land
I will never be the same
Because today
I met Him