Faith and Spirituality – Page 52 – watercress words by Dr Aletha

Who was Chesterton?

G.K. Chesterton, in full Gilbert Keith Chesterton (born May 29, 1874, died June 14, 1936), English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.

Frances Chesterton

“This is a love story. But it is also a detective story. And best of all, it is a true story, told here for the the first time. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a romantic, a writer of detective tales, and a teller of the truth. His own story and the stories he told are becoming better and better known. But what has remained unknown is the story of the most important person in his life: his wife Frances.
Nancy Carpentier Brown has done incredible detective work to uncover the mystery of Frances, tracking a figure who managed to leave very few traces of herself.
It is quite likely that as more is discovered about Frances, more biographies will be written of her, and they will be even more complete. But they will all come back to this one.” Amazon

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Dr. Aletha

John, chapter 4, MEV, Mo dern English Version

Now it was necessary that He (Jesus) go through Samaria.

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, therefore, being exhausted from His journey, sat down by the well.

A woman of Samaria came there to draw water.

a community well built and donated by a relief agency and donated

Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?”

For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

“Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.”

The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

About the pictures

I photographed these Zanzibar women drawing water from a well when I travelled there with a medical team to assist CHaRA Mission. CHaRA is

“a USA faith based 501(c)(3) organization focused on the needs of people, especially children, mothers, babies and midwives in rural villages, where resources are limited and hope is deferred.”

CHaRA’s projects include construction, health, and relief.

It’s mission is to improve the lives of the people of East Africa through