Lord, grant me the grace with which you greeted the woman at the well. You recognised her heresy and her impurity, yet you revealed yourself to her as you did to few others. You went further still, sowing Your word among her friends, family, and community for two precious days, delaying your arrival among your own kinsmen.
What love is this! Reaching out across boundaries, ignoring proprieties; in spite of social and spiritual divisions, offering to save a people.
O Lord, your example shows me my own smallness. Son of David, have mercy on me, the sinner.
