There is a woman in the seventh chapter of Luke whose name we never learn.

Luke doesn’t give it to us. He just tells us she was a woman in that town who was a sinner. Which in the first century meant everyone already knew everything about her. She was defined entirely by the worst thing the town had decided she was.

She heard Jesus was at Simon’s house. And she came.

Past every stare. Past every voice that said she had no right to be there. She walked into a room full of people who despised her, and she got to Jesus. She knelt at his feet and poured everything she had over them — her tears, her hair, the most expensive thing she owned. She held nothing back.

Simon the Pharisee watched from across the room and thought to himself: if this man were a prophet, he’d know what kind of woman this is.

Jesus answered what Simon was thinking. Then he turned toward her.

“Do you see this woman?”

Three words that could rewrite a life. Simon had seen a category. Jesus saw a person. And then he said the words she came for, even if she didn’t know that’s what she was coming for:

“Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

Shalom. The Hebrew word underneath that Greek phrase. Wholeness. Completeness. Nothing missing, nothing broken. She walked in carrying shame and a jar. She walked out carrying shalom.

I have been sitting with this story for years, actually. I keep coming back to her courage — the decision she made at the edge of that courtyard to walk in anyway. And I keep thinking about all the women I know who are standing at the edge of something. A room they’re not sure they belong in. A prayer they’re afraid to pray. A morning just for themselves that feels indulgent when everyone needs something from them.

This Selah Saturday is for those women.

On June 6 I’m hosting a half-day gathering in Minot for women who want to go deep. Not surface-level. Not a conference with a packed schedule and a hundred people. A small, intimate morning built around this one story — her story — and the invitation it holds for every woman who has ever felt disqualified, too much, not enough, or simply too tired to keep performing.

We will spend the morning in Luke 7. We will do some of the most meaningful prayer work I know how to lead. We will share communion together around the same table. We will eat lunch. And I believe — I genuinely believe — that you will walk out different than you walked in.

Not because of anything I do. Because of what happens when women tell the truth in a room together and Jesus meets them there.

Here’s what you need to know:

•  Saturday, June 6, 2026

•  9:00 am – approximately 2:15 pm

•  Minot, ND — The Hub at the Pursuit Church

•  $75 per person • Space is limited

•  Includes teaching, participant packet, and lunch

She didn’t wait until she was ready. She didn’t wait for an invitation. She just came.

You can too.

Register here: flannelsandpearls.com/product/selah-saturday-minot-nd-june-2026/