Episode 281: The Things That Never Satisfy

Dot and Cara just got back from Switzerland, and this episode kicks off a new series on what the Lord showed them there, starting with a well they hiked a mountainside to find again. They land in John 4, the story of the woman at the well, and Dot makes a confession right up front: "I am that woman." Together they talk about the difference between things that satisfy for a moment and the living water Jesus offers, and what it looks like to get honest about what you're really thirsty for. Pull up a chair, grab your Bible, and lean in with us.Got a question about today’s episode or something else you’d like to hear us talk about on the show? Let us know! Episode RecapIntro (00:00)Write this down: John 4:7-14, Jesus and the woman at the well (00:00)Cara welcomes listeners and introduces a new series on their recent trip to Switzerland and France (01:21)Dot says "I am the woman at the well" and Cara admits she has been mildly depressed since leaving the Alps (01:59)Behind the beauty of this trip was real hardship, and Cara opens up about the anxiety she carried into it (04:11)A rough itinerary turned into what could only be described as the perfect trip (04:47)The story behind the well, how Dot first tasted the best water of her life in Switzerland ten years ago and knew she had to find it again (05:48)Hiking a small mountain village to track down one specific well, and finding it exactly as good as they remembered (08:15)Dot connects the moment to Jesus meeting the woman at the well, and to a lifetime spent looking for love and validation in the wrong places (08:50)Why the things we chase to feel whole never quite satisfy, and how you can be thirsty for something you cannot even name (11:54)Jesus did not stumble onto this woman, He intentionally sought her out, the same way Dot and Cara intentionally sought out that well (15:34)What it looks like to be honest with God about what you are really thirsty for and let Him meet you there (22:01)Are you interested in having Dot come and speak to your community? Email us at [email protected] Write this Down! on YouTubeFind Dot Bowen on Instagram and Facebook This Episode’s Scripture VerseJohn 4:7-14 (ESV) — "A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, 'Give me a drink.' (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, 'How is it that you, a Jew, ask for 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 that is saying to you, "Give me a drink," you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.' The woman said to him, 'Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.' Jesus said to her, 'Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.'”