Jesus looked beyond her faults and saw her need. He did not dwell on her past human brokenness. He acknowledges the truth so that he could bring her to a place of truth and it is here that the healing begins. Jesus looks at her and mirrors to her what His eyes see, when He gazes upon her.
Jesus does not allow the limitations and taboos of the time, religiosity, culture, and gender- to define how He sees this woman. It is in the recognizing her human dignity- that He talks with her and walks with her and lets her know that she is His own! You see, Jesus saw her, and He sees us!
Where the world makes us invisible – we are made visible again in Christ! This is the faith we are initiated into at the well of Baptism. It is this proclamation of conversion and metanoia and faith that we are called to run and tell about. We are called to lead others out of a place of invisibility and into the light. A “Well” Woman’s Witness so to speak! The testimony of one who has been healed and made whole, plunged into the Living Water!
--Valerie Lewis-Mosley, RN, OPA
To hear Portuguese composer Manuel Cardoso’s beautifully meditative piece, Aquam quam ego dabo, click on the video below. The words are: Aquam quam ego dabo / Si quis biberit ex ea / Non sitiet in aeternum / Dixit Dominus mulieri Samaritanae, or The water which I shall give / if anyone shall drink of it / he shall never thirst / Said the Lord to the Samaritan woman.
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