Monday Musings - Going to the Well
( Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) A few nights ago, several of us got together online to engage in an informal Lectio Divina exercise. Let me share a bit of that experience with you. The moderator chose the well-known story of the Samaritan woman at the well - a passage most of us have read many times (see John:4:7-26). The exercise prompted these thoughts: “How often I have been unwilling to come to the well, to ask for the spiritual nourishment I so deeply need. How foolish it would be for me to now offer Jesus excuses as to why I had not come to Him. He knows! I was afraid to ask for that living water – afraid I would be unwilling to drink the cup He would give me. For a fleeting second, I then recalled the few times in my life where I did drink gluttonously of that living water and relived the amazing things God did in, and through me, when I simply did as He had asked.” Later in the session, our spiritual adviser emphasized that our Lord never seeks or desir...