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Rhona Cathcart March 10, 2026 3 1

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John 4: 31-33 (NIV-UK)

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, ‘Rabbi, eat something.’

32 But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat that you know nothing about.’

33 Then his disciples said to each other, ‘Could someone have brought him food?’

After years of letting myself get dehydrated I have finally developed the habit of taking a water bottle with me wherever I go. This is due in no small part to living with family members who are more attentive to such things than I am. 

We should never underestimate the power of a good, well-intentioned nag. 

Still, I understand why Jesus could get a bit exasperated with the way the disciples continually focused on the wrong things. There he was — perhaps hoping for more socially, mentally and spiritually hydrating conversation, such as he had just had with the Samaritan woman — and all they can think about is dinner! 

They weren’t wrong to care for him. But perhaps they were so busy ‘doing’ that they stopped noticing what and who were rising up and around Jesus wherever he went. They were still sowing, still thinking they were at the beginning; while just down the road a woman whom they had dismissed was busy watering a whole community with what Jesus had given her, ready for the harvest. 

Prayer:

God 

There are moments when you call us to stop doing what we think we are supposed to be doing. 

Moments when you say ‘now’ —

now listen

now celebrate

now harvest 

now drink…

May we hear your ‘now’. 

Amen