Feistiness at the well

John 4:5-11
So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
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 woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

The Woman at the Well

A woman prepared to be seen

A woman who risked being known

A woman unabashed

in the presence of a rabbi

A woman who gave 

as good as she got

countering engagement

with challenge
willing to be vulnerable
and invite encounter
And, by her courage
she experienced transformation
Not just for herself
But for her community 
A woman 
who became
a prophet
and evangelist
A woman
who used her instinct
and her feistiness
to drink deeply
at the well of wisdom