The story was told to me by a friend, Alfred Rapisura. When he first came to America, every time someone would greet him, 'Hey man, what's up?' he thought that it was a question. And so he would look up and start mentioning whatever he saw above him. He lamented that he encountered people who were interested in things above him and were not interested in him at all! In today's Gospel (John 4:5-15), we hear of the encounter of Jesus and the Samaritan woman. It started rather cold and impersonal, but ended up with a deep exchange of minds and hearts, leading to the conversion of the Samaritan woman in the end.

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