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Poems

At Jacob’s well

From the October 2017 issue of The Christian Science Journal


At Jacob's well
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Here, at this humble water source
   a woman of Samaria
      encountered a man
         from Nazareth

Where she saw him
   a travel-weary Jew
      thirsty, foreign   
he saw himself
   the blessed bearer
      of a gift eternally fulfilling 

Where she saw herself
   a scorned outcast
      mired in a shameful past                                                
He saw her
   the beloved heir
      of a fathomless wellspring of blessing 

And in the end, of course        
   his view prevailed,
      and she set out, rejoicing—
         her waterpot abandoned—
         to lead even those who’d scorned her
            to that wellspring of the Christ

—Joanne Otto

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