Our Lord sees our pain but also sees past our pain to who we really are. He reveals us to ourselves, opening our eyes to see ourselves clearly and calling us back to our true identity.
"Wounds and sin have a way of distorting our identity." I will keep that thought close to my own wrestling with shame and distortion. Looking at today's gospel from the woman's persective really drew me into the story. I prayed with the passage this morning and then heard it at church, but did not enter into it as I did with your retelling. Thank you.
A couple weeks ago something someone had said about the woman at the well really struck me, and I wrote this based on that perspective as a potential beginning to my wounds and prayer article, but it didn't really fit there. So when the Bible passage came up I decided to use it here instead. It was a perspective I needed and so thought it would also be good to share with others
Beautiful perspective Kim! I loved this post which ties in with my meditation today on Psalm 1 about the righteous and the wicked.
Thank you, Charlene! I love Psalm 1! What a great connection.
"Wounds and sin have a way of distorting our identity." I will keep that thought close to my own wrestling with shame and distortion. Looking at today's gospel from the woman's persective really drew me into the story. I prayed with the passage this morning and then heard it at church, but did not enter into it as I did with your retelling. Thank you.
A couple weeks ago something someone had said about the woman at the well really struck me, and I wrote this based on that perspective as a potential beginning to my wounds and prayer article, but it didn't really fit there. So when the Bible passage came up I decided to use it here instead. It was a perspective I needed and so thought it would also be good to share with others