Who shows up?

isn't it funny

who shows up

at the feet of Jesus

washing his feet with sweet perfume

attending

listening

drinking deeply from the cup

of divine love

at a tomb

early one morning

seeking again

that love

being greeting by all newness

all life

 

Mary

Magdalene

 

Not the earnest ones

not the strivers

not the men

the disciples

the insiders

 

but the woman

mysterious

unknown

one without standing or rank

who is she?

why is she the one?

perhaps her great virtue

is that she was not

a strive

and insider

but simply one 

who loved

and was willing to accept love

at the feet

of love personfied