Promise and Temptation
Service to one another comes before the temptation of riches, fame, and love. One will ask and the other will give their wish back in return. The king commanded, “I wish to serve one hundred of the birds at our wedding feast.” To serve the king became the only priority; the king is the master and Hugh promised not to fail. Before anything else, a person will do as told even with their greatest desire tempting them as they work.
A promise is something to be kept and a promise to service should not break. Trial after trial ninety-nine plump gray doves caught and a slim white dove not yet captured. Sweeping his fingers over his badge he says, “Servo.” By that wedding day, he will capture one hundred doves.
On the sixth day, the dove flew by finally giving the fowler a chance to capture it for the wedding. As Hugh looked at the white dove he imagined the sparkling dark eyes of Lady Columbia, the king’s bride. Then, the peaceful voice of Lady Columbia came about the dove offering the finest gifts to free to the white dove. The temptation to have riches, temptation to have fame, and the temptation to have true love do not matter. If I promised to get water in the most time of need, I would go to the highest point for one bucket of water. Service comes before gifts, and if one hundred doves is the king’s desire then that is what he should get.
Some can babble on and on offering the gifts you long most so that you will not do as you promised to serve. The most important thing is keeping your promise to care, serve, and love. For example, you promised your best friend to keep their secret. Will you tell every person you know? In the story, the dove pleaded and bribed the fowler to let her go, yet he thought his service for his master came before anything else. To serve one hundred doves to the king, the fowler caught ninety-nine living gray doves, and one white dove no longer living.
He came back, “But there never was a wedding.” Looking at that white dove earlier, he had imagined the slim and neat Lady Columbia with black eyes. He promised to serve and went through great lengths to get one hundred doves; the white dove being Lady Columbia. The wedding never came along since Lady Columbia got killed to serve one hundred doves.
Some promise to serve and will go to the most frigid trench, driest desert, and highest peak for their service, and will come back with everything they promised. Even with the most distracting or considerable temptation it will not stop the person from keeping their promise. If one hundred doves are to be served, then one hundred doves will be served though it may mean sacrificing riches, love, and life.
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