Comments on: Lent 3: The Way of Water http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/20/the-way-of-water/ Artist and writer Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word & image & faith. Wed, 09 May 2012 23:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erin Thomas http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/20/the-way-of-water/#comment-2720 Erin Thomas Wed, 12 May 2010 01:13:35 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=80#comment-2720 Jan: AMAZING insight! In all the years of reading this story, I never noticed that SHE LEFT THE JAR! I even used this story at a women's retreat about Resilient Women. Thank you for your gift of beautiful words and beautiful art. I have your calligraphy tree and love it. Congratulations on your marriage AND the poem you wrote. The map of the lines of our hands...a truly profound image. Jan:

AMAZING insight! In all the years of reading this story, I never
noticed that SHE LEFT THE JAR! I even used this story at a
women’s retreat about Resilient Women.

Thank you for your gift of beautiful words and beautiful art. I have your calligraphy tree and love it.

Congratulations on your marriage AND the poem you wrote. The map of the lines of our hands…a truly profound image.

]]> By: jack muir/scotland http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/20/the-way-of-water/#comment-804 jack muir/scotland Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:06:09 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=80#comment-804 Wonderful website, encourages me in my work I live in a place called Orkney 27 miles from the northern tip of Scotland Wonderful website, encourages me in my work

I live in a place called Orkney 27 miles from the northern tip of Scotland

]]> By: paul soupiset http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/20/the-way-of-water/#comment-144 paul soupiset Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:02:31 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=80#comment-144 love your site! i'm hooked! found it through gordon and CCBlogs. peace, paul love your site! i’m hooked!
found it through gordon and CCBlogs.
peace,

paul

]]> By: Barbie http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/20/the-way-of-water/#comment-120 Barbie Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:17:18 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=80#comment-120 This scripture never ceases to move me and surprise me. I have read it many times, yet I hadn't noticed the jar the woman left behind. I used to think she just wanted to get away from the disciples quickly, before they could judge her. Yet, the woman goes on to share with the folks in the city that Jesus knew everything about her. Perhaps she didn't care what the disciples thought about her after all. I am considering in what way the jar was not only a vessel, but a burden. I wonder what the fallout was with her not-quite husband when she failed to return home with the water and hightailed it to the city instead. So, your question about what jars I need to leave behind intersects with a question I have been carrying about this verse from Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." I have wondered as to how this is true, and I find it interesting that encountering Jesus gave the woman rest, both figuratively AND literally. This scripture never ceases to move me and surprise me. I have read it many times, yet I hadn’t noticed the jar the woman left behind. I used to think she just wanted to get away from the disciples quickly, before they could judge her. Yet, the woman goes on to share with the folks in the city that Jesus knew everything about her. Perhaps she didn’t care what the disciples thought about her after all. I am considering in what way the jar was not only a vessel, but a burden. I wonder what the fallout was with her not-quite husband when she failed to return home with the water and hightailed it to the city instead. So, your question about what jars I need to leave behind intersects with a question I have been carrying about this verse from Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” I have wondered as to how this is true, and I find it interesting that encountering Jesus gave the woman rest, both figuratively AND literally.

]]> By: Mary http://paintedprayerbook.com/2008/02/20/the-way-of-water/#comment-118 Mary Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:01:52 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=80#comment-118 Jan, Thanks for the fluid reflection. It brought to mind two more water phenomena for me: First, some other kinds of water in scripture--namely, snow and ice. The many, many days of Minnesnowta sub-zero temperatures this year have caused me to send many, many rants of biblical proportion in God's general direction. Water as life-giving, but also potentially deadly (and really tiresome come the end of February!). The Bigger Me, though, gives thanks for its power on both sides: water which nourishes and sustains and waters like those of baptism which put to death the old self and raise to life the new self--a bouyant creature, clean and sparkly. Thanks be to God for the grace to become again. The second waters about which you made me think are holy wells--those powerful places where God's bounty breaks forth for healing of every kind. Ditto what I said before about grace. I love places at which the saints gather, don't you? Here's a Spirited toast (make mine well water, please) to that brave Samaritan Spreader of Good News! Jan,
Thanks for the fluid reflection. It brought to mind two more water phenomena for me:
First, some other kinds of water in scripture–namely, snow and ice. The many, many days of Minnesnowta sub-zero temperatures this year have caused me to send many, many rants of biblical proportion in God’s general direction. Water as life-giving, but also potentially deadly (and really tiresome come the end of February!). The Bigger Me, though, gives thanks for its power on both sides: water which nourishes and sustains and waters like those of baptism which put to death the old self and raise to life the new self–a bouyant creature, clean and sparkly. Thanks be to God for the grace to become again.
The second waters about which you made me think are holy wells–those powerful places where God’s bounty breaks forth for healing of every kind. Ditto what I said before about grace.
I love places at which the saints gather, don’t you? Here’s a Spirited toast (make mine well water, please) to that brave Samaritan Spreader of Good News!

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