What Goes into a Saturday Sister Meditation

  In case anyone is interested in how i write these:
  Many of the ones i'd previously written were for a group, and had an element of committee editing.  But none of them seemed suitable, or at least quite what i wanted to offer for Easter.
And no Biblical woman is so associated with Easter as Mary Magdalene.
 She is often thought of as a sinful woman, but, if so, that is not explicitly stated in Scripture.  Wikipedia's article on her places the first mention of her as a harlot about 500 years after Jesus.
  What Scripture does tell us is that He cast 7 demons cast out of her.
  i was reminded of another place where 7 demons were mentioned, and went searching for it.  The passage tells of 1 demon cast out.  He found no place to rest, and, like the prodigal, thought to return.
  The demon in this parable found "home" clean & empty, as good as a welcome. Instead of simply returning, he brought 7 other more wicked than himself to move in.
  Which was all fascinating.  Could Mary have gotten in this state because  she had previously had one demon, someone else had cast it out, but her cleaned-up life had no new passion?

  Like i said, all very fascinating, but not where i wanted to go.
  The Saturday Sisters series is not about discussing theology or  demonology.  i might have the genesis of some sort of fiction here, but the numbers don't add up.
  Biblical fiction must not contradict Scripture or what is known about life in Bible times.

  So, what is message of Mary Magdalene?
  You may well get as many answers as you have people writing about her.
  It's fashionable to write about her as Apostle to the Apostles.  There's a body of work about her as Jesus' wife and appointed leader after Him.  (no comment here on that - you can read me elsewhere to see my opinion.)
  i like Liz Curtis Higgs' novel Mad Mary, bearing in mind that it is fiction.

  But back to the question, i had to find MY message to you about Mary Magdalene.

  And that is the start of the process of the writing. . . .