3rd Sunday of Lent - Year A (John 4. 5-12)

Imagine, if you will, that you have the ability to look deep down into the well frequented by the Samaritan woman.  What might you see?

First you would see the primordial waters of creation, that chaos over which the Spirit brooded and over which God spoke the Word of creation.  There too the Red Sea through which God's chosen move to new life and by which the forces of slavery and death are overthrown.  Forty days and forty nights worth of unrelenting rain are contained here.  Leviathan swims and the ark floats.  There are rivers here too, of course.  Not only the Jordan, but the river Ezekial saw flowing out of the temple, the river of the psalmist beside which the righteous flourish, and the river flowing from Jesus pierced side. 

This wonderous well in which we find and from which we drink the waters that quench all thirsts is found in every baptismal font.