6.30- The sermons I have seen today. People being kind and gentle with each other.

 6/30-

The sermons I have seen today.

People being kind and gentle with each other. Old and young. Black, white and brown. Middle eastern and western. Highly educated and craftsmen. Lowering of anxiety. Peacefulness and calm being passed around in common greetings. People being very patient with each other.

It was in the context of a hospital. Some were there for tests and others to get the results of scans that would determine the next set of challenges before them. A few were there to help get the next generation of children on the earth to a safe landing.

Some with tubes bringing in O2 and some taking out body fluids. All needing the help of each other.

There were nurses and doctors. There were policemen and security barriers set up to see why we were there and what was our business. This atmosphere I first noticed after 911. We were all so broken and wounded and crying about our nation.

We have come back into the gentle atmosphere among civilized citizens because of the combination of war and violence that has come into our world. Those children killed and officers on the other side of the wall have deeply wounded us.

Prayers for peace are needed now more than ever. Opening doors for each other and gentle greetings seem to be very important now.

I’m praying for more humility and prayer and healing.

John 4.

4 So then, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that [a]He was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His disciples were), 3 He left Judea and went away again to Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through Samaria. 5 So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about [b]the sixth hour.

The Woman of Samaria

7 A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away to the city to buy food. 9 So the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 She *said to Him, “[c]Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water? 12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”