Your Silence is the problem
If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this? (Esther 4:14 NLT) "The soul work, the mediative task of finding center and bring to the surface our most playful, poetic and responsive selves in our world of busy intersections when we feel belittled, shut down, or silenced, is perhaps our most essential task." --David Dark in We Become What We Normalize In the book of Esther, we learn the story of a young Jewish woman who is forcibly placed in the harem of King Xerses from Persia. Persia was the superpower of its day (5th century BCE) and continued its oppression of what we consider the mid-east. I have read multiple accounts of this story that often romanticizes her story as if she wasn't traumatized by being taken from her family, and then sexually assaulted. She was chosen due to her physical ap...