Love for God

There lived a King & a queen who ruled the country some centuries back. They were an ideal and loving couple. It was an ideal kingdom, where his subjects prospered, were happy and peace prevailed over the land.

But the only thing the Queen was not happy about the King was that he never seemed to be interested in God. Not that he was against God. He had no objection to his subjects or his wife worshipping God as they saw fit, it was just that he never seemed to join in. She realized after a while that not only had she never seen him perform worship, she had never even heard him utter a short prayer. In fact, she had never heard him mention the Lord's name

Since the queen was very religious, she began to suspect that her husband, the king, was not a lover of God. She became quite upset. Her constant cheerful smile was replaced with a frown. She began to spend more and more time by herself in the palace temple.

And so life went on, with the king attending to his duties, and the queen becoming more and more despondent and withdrawn.

One early morning, as the King looked out of the Palace, he was surprised to see that many people were already awake and were busy putting up decorations. Others were cleaning the streets or their homes, and it was clear that some sort of major celebration was about to take place. This puzzled the king. He couldn't think of any festival or celebration which took place at that time of year. He called his prime minister and asked him what was happening.

"It is the queen's order, sir," the prime minister replied.

"The queen's order?"

"Yes, sir. Early this morning she got up and ordered that today was to be a day of rejoicing. She
instructed that orders were to be given to all your subjects that today was a day of celebration."

"Why did she do that?"

"I don't know, sir. She didn't say."

The king was puzzled at this. Of course it was in the queen's power to pass such an order, but as she had taken no interest in the affairs of the kingdom for some time, this was a complete mystery to the king. Why had she suddenly given such an order? He went to see the queen, who greeted him in her best clothes and with a dazzling smile on her face.

"Did you order this celebration?" the king asked.

"Yes," the queen admitted.

"Why? What is it? What has happened that has made you so happy all of a sudden?"

"Oh my king," the queen exclaimed, "I am so happy. At last what I have been praying for all these
years has come true. Last night, while you were sleeping, you turned over and I heard you utter the
name of God. That is why I have ordered this celebration."

"What!" exclaimed the king, "has my Beloved escaped from my heart and passed through my lips!"

And with that the king sighed and dropped dead.