Anointed with myrrh - really?
Imagine being a young woman, orphaned as a young child, taken in by your cousin to be reared after your parents' death. You find yourself living in a strange land as a foreigner to the region, your family has been taken from you, and now you find yourself living in a "single parent" home. Not the life every young girl dreams of, huh? Then one day, a decree requires you to leave the comfort of the only "home" you really knew. Taken from your place of comfort, you are ushered into a great harem of others being prepared for the pleasure of the king of the land. Months of preparation will be required, but in the end, your very life will totally rotate around the king's command. Esther finds herself alone, at the mercy of the head of the king's harem, and totally uncertain of her future. Yet, in this story of Esther, I found a little nougat of hope: When it was Esther's turn to go to the king (Esther the daughter of Abihail the unc...