Hoisted by his own petard
I won’t apologise for this. You need to read this chapter in its entirety too. So the king and Haman went to dinner with Queen Esther. At this second dinner, while they were drinking...
Author: Helen Redfern
Avoiding the whole ‘Pride comes before a fall’ thing
Esther 6 is pure gold. A wonderfully engaging story with such a clever twist that made me chuckle. Truly comical and yet with murderous thoughts at its core. Worthy of a sitcom or a...
It’s what you do with what you have……
On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king’s hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in...
For such a time as this…..
This is Esther’s moment. She’s been told that Mordecai is in great distress at the king’s gate. She finds out why. She discovers Haman’s plan to exterminate all the Jews. Which will include her....
When we are bewildered……..
The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered. Esther 3:15 That’s the very last sentence of Esther 3. The people of Susa are bewildered. And who can...
Mistrust and stereotypes…….
So. Moving on. The king is happy. He has a new queen. Esther is his new Queen of Hearts. A plot to end his life has been thwarted. Esther and her uncle Mordecai are...
Acting with integrity
Meanwhile…….. During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. But Mordecai found...
The very first beauty contest
Esther was beautiful. The most beautiful girl in the kingdom. Or so the king thought. And he is the one who matters in this story recounted in the Book of Esther. He’d banished the...
Don’t tell your your children they are beautiful
Don’t tell your children they are beautiful. Because they are not. They are clearly not. Not in the perfect airbrushed flawless definition of beauty that your children may believe is the only definition of...
So what is beauty anyway?
It’s entirely subjective, right? Beauty, that is. This saying’s been around since the 3rd century in Greece and has been explored in poetry and literature and film and art ever since. And life. And...
