It was indeed an exchange of love.

Excerpt

After receiving this grace my desire for the salvation of souls increased day by day. I seemed to hear Our Lord whispering to me, as He did to the Samaritan woman: "Give me to drink!" It was indeed an exchange of love: upon souls I poured forth the Precious Blood of Jesus, and to Jesus I offered these souls refreshed with the Dew of Calvary. In this way I thought to quench His Thirst; but the more I gave Him to drink, so much the more did the thirst of my own poor soul increase, and I accepted it as the most delightful recompense.

Source Story of a Soul, Chapter V, §5 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, after praying for the conversion of a man condemned to death, she heard Jesus within her saying, as to the Samaritan woman at the well: “Give me to drink!”; she understood that He thirsted for the love of souls, and that the more she gave Him, the more her own desire to love grew. Today, with every glass of water you drink, think of someone you carry in your heart and entrust them to God in a word.

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