Episode 415 For a Time Such as This (Esther 4:1-17)

This week BibleWorm reads Esther chapter 4, the story of a woman who didn’t know the power that she had … until suddenly she did. Her story makes us think of what it is to have a fate that is tied to the most vulnerable people – arguably a fate we all have. It made us wonder about the breadth of details in a person’s life story that prepare them in some way for the biggest challenges they will face. And it made us ask - what is possible once we put aside the primary goal of protecting ourselves?