You show up to cheer for your child, heart pounding with love and pride, only to feel the air shift the moment their father arrives.

“Loyalty is not about sameness; it’s about turning toward each other.”

My face was not pleasant; I crossed my arms and looked at the stupid big cross on the wall in front of me and thought, “How could You?”

The story of the woman at the well has been dissected ad nauseam which is why I’m baffled when I still hear her referred to as a divorced whore. I do not believe the Samaritan woman at the well is a divorced whore.