Luke 19:28-40 and Palm Sunday as the doorway to Holy Week — understand this day and the rest of the week makes sense.
Luke 1 and the greeting between Mary and Elizabeth, with John leaping in the womb — the Messiah the Jews had waited centuries for, present and unannounced.
A Memorial Day service that begins with an empty chair set at the front for those who did not come home, before turning to the woman at the well.
The second half: the unnamed woman at Sychar has no name because she has all of them, and every bucket lowered into Jacob's well leaves you thirsty again.