Jamie Sullivan, a good friend of mine, recently wrote a devotion for some of the women in our church. Her writing touched my heart deeply. That being the case (and with her permission of course), I decided to use the “copy & paste” method of writing this week. I pray you are touched by her writing as well. Be sure to check out Jamie’s blog for more of her thoughts.

The woman written of in the gospels who anointed our Savior was just an ordinary woman. However, her expression of love is legendary.

When a woman who had lived a sinful life in that town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she stood behind Him at His feet weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.” Luke 7:37-38

This scene painted in Luke 7:37-38 (see also Matthew 26:1-16, Mark 14:1-12 & John 12:1-11) awakens a feeling in me, best described as “gently radical.”

During this time in history women kept their hair pinned up. Paul even goes so far to say in one Epistle that a woman’s glory is her hair. Yet, humbly she departed from the culturally accepted thing, took her hair down and used “her glory” to serve Him tenderly. Click to continue »