We, as humans, are all thirsting and hungering for something.
The Hebrews, having just been redeemed from slavery in Egypt, hunger for good in the desert, and as is described in the first reading for today, they thirst for water in great desperation.
Yet maybe their physical thirst reveals their deeper thirst, like the woman at the well.
She's longing to belong in the midst of so many social standards that exclude her.
She is initially hesitant to embrace what Jesus has to offer, because she doesn't get it.
But Jesus continues to reach out to her, and she then realizes what He has to offer her will satisfy her deep-seated thirst.
God satisfies us because, as St. Paul writes, Jesus showed the full extent of God's love by dying for us sinners, demonstrating that He has met our greatest need for salvation.
So let us reach to Jesus Who probes deeply into our lives so that our deep-seated thirst for meaning in life can be satisfied by His Presence with us.
Especially in the midst of the highly pressing situation at hand, we can have the assurance that our God accompanies us: Let us rejoice in our God, not hardening our hearts, but opening them to Him, so He may pour forth living water into our hearts, and we may be truly alive, as He sustains us.
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