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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 desires for us to grovel at His feet. He wants to liberate us from fear and sin.
“God speaks to all of us,” Father stated. "Do we listen to Him?” He continued: “The hour to listen to Him is now. Say “yes” to Him and He will come rushing into your heart."
Then He left this gem for us to ponder and live:
“We must know God as Love – Love is Who He is!”
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