Esther’s older cousin, Mordecai, who had raised her, discovers the plot and wants Esther to go tell the king. One of the King’s right hand men, Haman, plotted to destroy all of the Jews. The king likes Esther best and she became his new queen. She follows her uncle’s advice to keep her heritage a secret. One of those virgins rounded up was the Jewish girl Esther. The king will then choose the one who pleases him most.īeautiful virgins from throughout the empire were brought in for this tryout. He orders his men to find him beautiful virgins to basically audition as his queen. After days of feasting and drinking, King Xerxes gets mad at his queen and decides he wants a new queen. In the Old Testament book of Esther, the Jewish people are living in exile in Persia. It was one of his two most important days of his life. In that moment he discovered who he was and why he was put on this earth. It was what had been missing in his life.” Scott has a Eureka moment as he realized “He needed to be her hero. You’ve got the ability to save that girl’s life.” As he struggles with his decision, a former college football teammate says to him: “Scotty, don’t you see? God’s given you a better gift than being a football star. In Mark Gimenez’s novel “The Color of Law” the lead character Scott struggles over whether he will represent a poor, black, drug addicted prostitute in a murder case knowing that doing so will come at a great personal cost. Why are they here? What is their purpose in life? What are they supposed to do? Many people are so busy with life they never really take the time to discover the ‘why’. Mark Twain said: “The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”
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