WOMAN AT THE WELL
Lessons from the woman at the well | Global Sisters Report First, this woman is faced with a request from a stranger. He is a man and she is a woman; of course he might expect her to give him a drink. But, like Mary of Nazareth, she neither complies with the request nor refuses it before asking her own questions. The woman’s willingness to engage the stranger in conversation — a conversation that she shapes as much he — leads the two of them deeper and deeper into a relationship. IN all likelihood, none of this would have transpired had she mutely obeyed or stridently refused the man’s initial request. By determining to have her questions satisfied, she finds herself with new questions and unimaginable satisfactions. Women need the same kind of daring today. We must be prepared to ask our own questions of those who expect certain patterns of behavior of uS. The second lesson is that the woman at the well allows the relationship to change her. The symbol of this transformati...
