an abandoned vessel
An empty water jar bakes in the heat
in a place where people are called
“sin-filled.”
My Lord sits beside it,
tracing his finger around the rim.
I join the other followers as we come to him with our food.
Someone gave him something to eat?
Someone gave him something to drink?
Surely not.
Not here.
We are among those people.
Yet Jesus says he does not thirst.
Yet Jesus says he is full.
Why do I focus upon my definitions?
Of hunger…
Of thirst…
Of those who are sinful…
My Lord sits by the edge of a bottomless well
tracing his finger
along the edge
of abandoned definitions.
Based upon John 4:5-42
Inspired by www.pray-as-you-go.org for March 22/23, 2014
Not Quite Home 