Course XLVII - Teaching 7: Parable about the Woman of Samaria (December 17th, 1955)

A consecrated soul has to be always close to the well to give the Master water when he comes. The Master never has to find the soul careless or absentminded: “Be always ready, my Daughters”.
The woman of Samaria came to the well and found the Master there. He said: “Give me to drink”, and surprised, she replied how it was that, being a Nazarene, he asked to drink of her. The Master answered and said that if she gave him to drink he would give her a eternal water that would assuage her thirst forever.
He has the water of the eternal life, but begs of us our love to assuage his thirst. He has all and possesses the worlds and the whole Universe, but begs of us our love.
That is why he tells the woman of Samaria that even she had just sinned but surrendered her heart, the eternal waters and graces would be of her: What are your sins before me? What does it matter our misery if even our misery cannot separate us from Him if we give Him to drink?
He is the Divine Prisoner that, being confined, seeks through the bars of his window children playing below, in the street, and cheers up their games and follows their gazes.
If we give him to drink, a fountain shall emerge and lead us toward the Eternal Life.