Liminal: Woman at the Well

Are you haunted by something from your past? Perhaps you have a past trauma, mistake, or wound that seeps out in your conscious or subconscious behavior. There's a famous line in the critically acclaimed film "Magnolia" that says, "We may be through with the past, but the past isn't through with us." Often times, we allow our past to influence our thoughts, habits, and motives in more ways than we realize. But how does God treat us with our respective histories? Does God condemn or define us according to things we've done or things done to us in previous years? This intriguing interaction between Jesus and the Samaritan woman reveals quite a lot about God's grace, non-judgment, and compassion towards people with a questionable past. Likewise, how does God treat you with your own past?

John 4:1-26