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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Welcome to the Anglican parish of St Andrew's Wimbledon, where I serve as vicar
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Most people know what it feels like to be thirsty, not just physically but inwardly dry
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restless, a sense in our bones that something is missing. In John's Gospel, Jesus meets a woman drawing water at a well in the heat of the day
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He speaks to her about living water. He says, everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again
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but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. She thinks he means an easier way to get the water she already knows
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but he's speaking about something much deeper. In this conversation, he doesn't judge her or lecture her
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but he gives her this invitation to receive living water. The water Jesus offers here is not success or comfort
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it is a new source of life within, a restored relationship with God
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Just as our bodies need physical water, our souls need to be connected to the well of living water
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life with the one who is the source of life, who offers a love that does not run out
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Christian faith suggests our deeper longings aren't weaknesses to hide or fake or medicate
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They are signs that we were made for more than mere survival
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and with Jesus Christ that more is not something we achieve but something we receive
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What if the thirst beneath all our other thirsts is actually that longing for the love that does not run out
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Jesus Christ says he has come to give that living water to anyone who wants it
