The woman said to him: ‘Sir, you do not have a bucket and the well is deep. So where will you get living water? Surely you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons and his cattle?’
Jesus replied ‘Everyone who drinks (again and again) some of this water will become thirsty once more. Whoever drinks (once) from the water I will give them, will never ever thirst, for eternity. The water that I will give them will become for them a spring of water, bubbling up to resurrection life in them.
The woman said to him ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, or have to come here to draw water.’
God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.