Friends.

Old and new

Casual and close

Estranged and forever

Whatever their

Inclination

Predilection

Disposition

Religion

Or belief

Still friends.

Just to be clear

We are all called

To lives

Of service

Albeit

Not necessarily

In the public eye.

Rumour has it that some die-hard atheists think the Bible is quite a good yarn: highly unlikely of course, but not a bad read all in all! Well, they're right about one thing - it is a collation of many good stories. About real people, places, and events. And the Book of Esther, the eponymous tale of a young Jewish orphan made queen by the Persian monarch Xerses when he rejects his wife Vashti, is emblematic of all three.