The gift

John 4:7-10

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

The gift

of creating space

in which encounters happen

The gift

of inviting exploration

of thoughts

that long have been buried

tamped down

kept inside

The gift

of encouraging

playful imagination

giving free rein

to the unimaginable

opening up possibility

expanding horizons

encouraging growth 

All achieved

when one creates space

for the other.