Showing posts with label Samaritan woman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samaritan woman. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2025

A drink of water


After John 4:5-15
 

We come for water,

a drink, a sip

to sustain, needed

for life, but then

we’re offered water

of a different kind,

not the kind which

must be refreshed

to slake physical

thirst, but the water

of life, eternal life,

water that sustains

our souls, our hearts,

our minds, water

that, once accepted,

never has to be

drunk again, water

of eternity poured

into us, drawing

us into the flow,

drawing us into

life eternal. Drink,

and drink deeply.

 

Photograph by Frank Albrecht via Unsplash. Used with permission.


Some Friday Readings

 

Popular Christian Books with Unintended Consequences – Kim Riddlebarger at The Riddleblog.

 

From “The Christ” by Cynewulf – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

“Come Down, O Love Divine,” hymn by Bianco da Siena – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

Christianity speaks to everything – T.M. Suffield at Nuakh. 

 

“I Am the Living Bread,” Poem by Edward Taylor – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

Sunday, February 1, 2015

The walls of Jericho


Standing at the well,
clutching my pitcher,
I try everything I can
   think of

Custom: yours do not
   associate with mine
Tradition: are you greater
  than the ancestors
Material: spare me
   from my work
Theology: is it better
   to worship in Jerusalem

each block, each wall
I erect, each obstacle
my words create,
he knocks down,
without effort

He strips my defenses
He destroys my resistance
He sears my soul
   with the hot knife
   of his words
His voice tears through me
   leaving me spent
   yet alive

He circles the walls of Jericho
  blowing his horns
He comes from the chosen
   to save the unchosen
   to save the rejected
   to save the despised

I tremble.

His words shatter the glass,
shards falling to the stone,
shattering, leaving slivers
and pointed sand
beneath my feet
and his own


Painting: The taking of Jericho, gouache on board (1896-1902) by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (or follower); Jewish Museum, New York.