Last Sunday Kevin Flowers said, “Peace is a place where there is no confusion.” I’ve thought about that statement a lot this week. I think most of us want peace to be a place where there is no opposition, no dysfunction, no disagreement and no difficulty, but what if peace has more to do with what’s going on in us than what’s going on around us? What if peace’s presence or absence in our lives has nothing to do with our spouse, our children, our job, our debt, our health, our government or our culture, what if peace is completely centered on the condition of our heart and our confidence in the commitment of our Father? “Peace is a place where there is no confusion.” Today we are going to see that the conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well took a turn after He had promised that “whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” Up until that moment this woman had asked questions and made objections to everything Jesus had said. And then the conversation changed. In these next verses, we get to see why Jesus “had to” go through Samaria. While meeting with this woman Jesus confronted the culture of prejudice and He disrupted her understanding that had been built by that culture. He heard her questions and endured her objections, but now He was going to show her that He knew her heart and He was going to show her His. The purpose of conversation is not simply to hear and be heard, it is to connect, to go deeper than the surface, to open our hearts and to receive the heart of another. Jesus made Himself vulnerable to her so that she could learn that it was safe to become vulnerable to Him. This morning I pray that we will hear Jesus’ heart and that we will freely trust Him with ours, that we will discover along with the woman at the well, that the pathway to peace often requires that God lead us to revisit our pain, not to remind us of where we’ve gone wrong but to deliver us from the confusion that has been caused by rejection.