We start three weeks of discovering the richness of Baptism.
Why did the Samaritan woman come to draw water at noon, the hottest time of the day?
Did she want to avoid the times the other women in town came to the well?
What are the places in my life where I am embarrassed, where I avoid interaction with others?
What are the noon day wells of my life?
There is a thirst in every human heart – each of us is like that Samaritan woman – we are thirsting for something, something that will satisfy all our longings. We often search in the wrong places, we draw water from several wells; the water of praise to quench our thirst for self-esteem; the water of success to quench our thirst for importance; the water of pleasure to quench our thirst for joy…. but we still get thirsty! Only God can give us water for which we are looking, He alone can cause a spring to well up inside us.