No place to hide

Joshua 2:1-4

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and spent the night there. The king of Jericho was told, “Some Israelites have come here tonight to search out the land.” Then the king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come only to search out the whole land.” But the woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they came from.

Rahab

Another woman

whose courage

born of intuition

earned her a place

in the roll call.

 of saints

Another woman 

whose subversive action

changed the course

of the history

of God’s people

Another woman

who did not need to see 

the end of the story

but recognised the importance

of doing what was needed

in the moment.

Another woman

who would incur

speculation

and ostracisation

who would be judged

and condemned

Another woman

whose faith

informed her risk 

enabling her

to emerge from the shadows

embracing the vulnerability
of being noticed

in order to make a difference.

Rahab 
Another woman

who made history

by her story.