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In this Sunday's Gospel , Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well and offers her "living water." She takes him literally, thinking of her own thirst, her own daily burden of drawing water. When the disciples return, Jesus tells them he has "food to eat that you do not know about," and they too take him literally, wondering who brought him lunch. Both the woman and the disciples hear Jesus through the filter of their own needs and desires, and so they miss what he is actually

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus tells people not to be afraid. Usually he is speaking to people weighed down by worldly troubles: illness, poverty, persecution. But at the Transfiguration , something different happens. When Peter, James, and John witness the fullness of who Jesus is, they fall to the ground in terror. They are not afraid of suffering. They are afraid of love itself, revealed without limit. And Jesus does not scold them. He walks over, gently touches them, and s

Faith is hard. Trust is hard. And if faith in God can be a challenge, how much more can it be difficult to maintain our faith in our spouses, day in and day out? This Sunday's Gospel describes how, in the wilderness, Satan tempted Jesus to test God's protection. Jesus responded with clarity: "You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test." Because love demands faith. In our marriages, we sometimes fall into the trap of testing our spouses. These tests rarely look dramati