Now, before you scowl and entertain thoughts of self-righteousness, thinking that you’d never have replied like that, remember, you are trapped by mates in a safe and unthreatened environment where there are no armed infantrymen outside and governmental custom to obey.

Additionally , possibilities are good you don’t live under a cloud due to the race into which you were born, and there is not any king sitting on a throne at whose fancy you live or die.

It’s simple to be brave when we are protected and secure, when we have nada to risk.

If Esther obeyed Mordecai, she stood to chance everything, including her life. Though the king was her hubby, she could not just walk into his office and casually unload what was on her mind. Things failed to work like that in traditional Persia. And at that point, he had not sent for her for a month.

If she went to him without being summoned, he may have her put to death. Who knows how that Gentile sovereign would reply when he discovered that out? As a parent, you have occasions in your life, passing vignettes, small windows of time, where you can step forward and help your youngsters to realise the value of being brave. As they grow up and those hands-on occasions change to a more distant relationship, you must call on your kids to stand for what they think, even if they must stand alone—and then trust them to do it without you alongside. So when Hathach comes to him with Esther’s answer, Mordecai tightens the sash around his sackcloth and announces the hard thing. In that very same situation, what do you suspect you would have announced to the queen?