Role playing

I was listening to our two-year-old granddaughter acting out the role of "bigger cousin" the other day. Up to that point, she had been so sweet, calm and loving. Now she was complaining and bossy. I didn't interfere. I just knew that wasn't her real self. Pretty soon the tone changed and she was acting normally and interacting sweetly with her baby cousin.

Enter King Ahasuerus and Queen Vashti. The king requests the presence of the queen, who decides she will not cooperate. Horror of horrors say all the other males in the court. If the queen doesn't obey her husband, what hope have all the other husbands of having cooperative wives? And so the king acted out the role of the wronged husband. 

I'm sure there's a lesson here.

Julie Swannell