"The Well 'creates' community, it makes for encounter. No two people come to a well to fill their buckets without talking and, if that well be the living Spirit of Christ, then the Jew talks to the Samaritan, the man to the woman, the prophet to the sinner (with a good deal of banter and laughter), the stranger and traveller to the local. People find one another at the well; share gossip, laughter and deep things as they work at the rope; have time for one another; travel to and from; bring empty buckets and take them away full for the use of others in the home or wherever. Things happen at the well.
The Well is the symbol of the life-giving God whom we seek. It is not 'our' well; we may be the locals, but the well is for all as God is for all - the Heart of the matter - a deep, still entry into the vast, inexhaustible, unseen source below."
Fr Frank Green
