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Topic: Embarrassed (07/19/07)
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TITLE: Oh, the Irony | Previous Challenge Entry
By Ruth Neilson
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This cannot be happening to me. I was the one who was suppose to be receiving this treatment, it was I who found a way to save the kingdom money, and it was my idea to get rid of these leaches on the government...those...ugh...Hebrews.
“Make way! This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”
Yes, please, just get out of my way before anyone that I know sees me. I should have done this early in the morning. So only the women (who would believe them) would witness this.
It didn’t help this morning that the servants didn’t help me find a robe for Mordecai. They spent the morning laughing at my predicament. If the household servants were not bad enough, the stable servants were nowhere to be found. But, after I found and saddled the horse, I came across several servants lounging in a pile of straw, snickering!
How did I get volunteered for this to start with? I thought everyone in the palace know how I felt about this man. Oh, that’s right. I decided to seek permission from King Xerxes to hang Mordecai.
“This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”
Serves me right for going to ask permission of the king to hang Mordecai...I should have just gone and done it, and begged for mercy later. That’s it, that’s my new policy for life; act and then ask for mercy.
What did I do to offend the gods such? I sought their wills on what day the Jews were to be wiped from Xerxes’ kingdom and this is how they repay me?
“This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”
Just get out of my way people. Stop gawking and let me finish the king’s will so I can go home. Yes, home, just think of your wife and friends. Pretend that you aren’t escorting Mordecai the Jew through the capital. That’s it, just keep your head high...only a little bit further and this will be all done and over with.
“This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”
Ugh, I can’t get that saying out my head. A quick kiss on the cheek for my wife, a smile for my friends, and now to get cleaned up. Now off to the royal banquet hosted by the queen...will this day ever end?
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Esther 6:9 b
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I just know you wrote exactly what he was probably thinking as he led Mordecai through the crowd! Poor Haman, even his wife, whom he went rushing home for sympathy from, knew he was doomed. Your story perfectly captured this scripture passage. Riveting!
For me, as only a suggestion, I would have liked to have seen a little more time and place setting at the very beginning to ready me for the unfolding events. Great job!