Have you ever considered how many senses you have, not only physical ones, but spiritual ones? Or, what it actually means to "taste and see that the Lord is good" (Psalm 34:8)?

In Eat This Book, Eugene Peterson retells a pointed illustration:

Imagine a people who have lived their entire lives in a warehouse bunker. It provides food, comfort, and routine, but it has no doors; only grimy windows at sidewalk level that no one bothers to clean. The warehouse is all they know. One day, a child uses a ladder and wipes a window and sees people outside gazing upward in wonder. Why are they looking and pointing at nothing? She looks up too, but sees only the ceiling. What seems like nothing to those inside is, in fact, the vast heavens above them; airplanes, geese in flight, towering clouds.

What if one day a child cut a door in the wall and led others outside? They would discover a wondrous open sky and wide horizons they never imagined. Typically, adults in the warehouse scoff at the tales the children bring back. After all, they are completely in control of the warehouse world in ways they could never be outside. And they want to keep it that way.

I look forward to seeing you this Sunday as we continue our Lenten series by exploring Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman in John 4. Surprisingly, she is the one who perceives the divine reality standing before her - while the disciples, in broad daylight, cannot see.