Luke 7:40-50. Two debtors, one forgiven ten times more than the other, and the woman washing Jesus' feet with her tears while Simon offered no water at all.
John 4:7-17 and the woman at the well, in another run of the occasional series the preacher calls Things Adam Wants to Talk About.
On conditioned responses — the same dance to the same tune for three decades — and what it takes to change the steps.
1 Samuel 16 and the anointing of David, after a long run through Hannah, Eli, Samuel and a search for donkeys — some of us still out looking for ours.
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.
Galatians 5:13-26 — there seems to be no limit to how low discouragement can take us, set against weddings, births and people being helped in the streets.