–42). Opening with the story of the Underground Railroad folk song "Follow the Drinking Gourd," Tom draws a vivid connection between enslaved people navigating to freedom by starlight and a Samaritan woman navigating her way out of exile and desperation to an encounter that would change everything. Along the way, he traces the centuries-old animosity between Jews and Samaritans, reframes the woman's five husbands through the lens of Levirate marriage law, and explores why Jesus chose the most marginalized person in the most marginalized community to receive his most stunning self-revelation: I AM. This is the third sermon in the Lenten series Thirsty.