We are all entitled to speak to Jesus
Readings: Exodus 17:3-7;When was the last time you had to go and speak to someone that you didn’t want to? Perhaps asking for help in a store? Perhaps asking someone to move their car which was blocking your gate? Asking for something, asking perhaps for a favour? How did it make you feel? Nervous? Needing a dose of courage? Awkward?
At first sight it appears that this is a conversation between Jesus and an unnamed woman at Jacob’s Well in Sychar. However, by social convention, this isn’t a conversation that should happen. This is a single male talking to a female, alone, in a traditionally female space – the well. Then there’s the fact that the woman is a Samaritan – not an expected meeting of people – there’s a reason the Good Samaritan is a surprise to the original hearers in Luke’s Gospel.
Jesus, in speaking to the woman at the well, has overcome social conditions and the busyness of the day – what does Jesus have to overcome so we can hear Him to speak to us? Is it busyness, is it challenging the way we think things should be, is it that we’re not listening, looking, observing and discerning Jesus speaking to us? Lenten disciplines are often about clearing space – not doing something to create space – whether it be living with less, creating time, creating absence all in order...
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