Day 29

Everyone drinking from this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never thirst into the age. Instead, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water leaping up into the life of the age.

John 4:13-14

Read it aloud. Then sit with it. Say nothing for ten minutes.

What well do you keep going back to that has never once satisfied you?

The card is drawn on your own phone and never leaves it until you send it.

A note on one phrase: the life of the age

The Greek adjective is aionios, from aion, an age. It is nearly always given as eternal, which carries a claim about endless duration that the adjective does not make on its own. Where he does speak of the age to come, the Greek uses a different word, mello. One Greek word, one English rendering, so the choice can be checked against the text. The nearby into the age renders a different construction, the noun eis ton aiona, and is left as it stands.