Through the Samaritan woman, Jesus revealed that the gift of God is expressed via saving foreigners who also believe in him. Jesus at the well was letting everyone know that the covenant was no longer bound to a specific biological line. People could now be adopted into the family. People –like me or like that woman– could be born again. (Be reborn in the Spirit and in the water as noted previously.)

When he asks for a drink of water, it feels like a call to experiment. It inspired me to compare the effect of plain water vs “the living water.”

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

I still don’t understand…but I can identify the results of the “water” I’ve had. Even without taking anything, I can find myself feeling so lost and confused that it’s like being drugged by an enemy. I feel like there’s poison inside of me that I can’t get out with the sips of water from my little plastic bottle. No matter how much I drink. The fog and static seem to be by design to block the way. Perhaps the point of bringing me here was so that I could find this “living water.” That elixir that would even heal my ailments…and stay active within me wherever I go.