Have you ever felt rejected? Have you ever felt that nobody paid any attention to your words? I felt the same, for although I called aloud and raised my voice in the public squares, nobody listened to me. Even in the gateways where the city council meets, I made my speeches, but no one mended […]

The island of Malta has one chief official and I am he. Generally, I do not receive visitors in the middle of the winter, not because I am inhospitable, but because the winter storms interfere with travel. Yet, in the middle of the stormy season, 276 crew members and passengers of an Alexandrian ship survived […]

What is beauty? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for me, the beholder was the most powerful man on the earth, King Xerxes or King Ahasuerus , as some people call him. I am his queen. I am modest and I reserve my beauty for the king. When I was ordered by […]

“The Devil made me do it.” Satan had indeed filled my heart, so much so that I lied to the Holy Spirit. I was rebuked by another who had also been temporarily misled and used by the devil, but was so no more. Who am I and who is my rebuker? I am a modest […]

I am a Roman citizen, and I am better than the Jews. Of course, you would expect me to say that, but it is not I who said it, but a popular Jew who attracted many crowds . He said, “I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great […]

By virtue of being a king, I am also a judge. A judge is sometimes called to assist another judge in making a difficult decision. Thus, my wife and I arrived in full pomp and circumstances to hear a particularly difficult case which had already dragged on for two years with no satisfactory solution. The […]

I am a beauty queen ill the fullest sense of the word. When I walk, heads turn. I am not conceited, but it just happens to be this way. I am such a startling beauty that even kings take notice of me, a nomad’s wife. Because of my appearance my husband acquired “sheep and cattle, […]

I, like Paul Revere, am a silversmith by trade. I, like Paul Revere, lived in a city that was one of the most important ports of a colony of a great empire which would last for centuries. I, like Paul Revere, am an agitator, and, like him, can organize a rowdy demonstration when called upon. […]

I am a little unusual because I am the forerunner of the health food craze. You see, I lived in the Biblical times. Open your Bibles and find out who I am. I am a lover of honey , but not the honey from apiaries. I prefer wild honey. Although I am not a vegetarian […]

FROM NEW ZEALAND Dear Brother Peter: Greetings from down under from the land of the Kiwis. It’s the middle of winter here but the temperatures during the day rise into the 50s and 60s. We do have frequent frosts but they are as the locals say “ground frosts,” the result is that almost everything remains green […]