Why The Weeping Willow Weeps (A Parable) Comments

There was once a beautiful young Woman named Willow and word of her beauty traveled far and wide. Many suitors came to ask her hand in marriage; rich men and poor men, the young and the old, but Willow never accepted any mans offer to wed. She thought she was too beautiful for any man less he be a King or God yet she never told her suitors of this as she loved the attention and gifts she was given. Great was her beauty to the eye but how cold and selfish was her beauty inside.

For many years the suitors would come and go, yet there was one poor farm boy that always stayed. Every week he would come to her and without so much as a single word, he would smile to her, bow and give her a gift. It did not matter what she asked of her suitors that week, he would return bearing it most gladly.
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