The pitcher

17 Dec The pitcher

Palace of marriage.

The king’s one of the most valuables in the palace. The king does not drink overnight water but fresh. 

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The pitcher became the palace instrument by which fresh water can be collected for the king’s use early in the morning daily.

Day after days, week after weeks, and month after months that no counter order came from the king’s table as regarding the use of this particular pitcher, it became a phenomenon and a palace rule that had come to stay. 

The pitcher itself became an institution that no man must as a matter of mistake or intentionally collide with to avoid breaking. Unfortunately, the love of the King for the pitcher was so great that the thinking of the palace people could no longer comprehend it. 

On one fateful day, before the day finally breaks as usual, the king’s water carrier rose to go and begins the day’s assignment, but the story was not the same. The pitcher has disappeared, a great alarm from the water carrier “alas” who stole the king’s pitcher? Only to find the pitcher in pieces outside the palace.

A greater shout of “it is finished” unconsciously proceeded out of her mouth.

The key to the palace lock is always with the palace guard, and the key must be deposited at the king’s feet everynight. The key still at the king’s feet, the palace guard standing by the king’s door. 

Who broke the king’s pitcher at the palace entrance? A stranger finds his way into the palace? 

We should not be carried away with what a pitcher could look like. It is a big clay pot for fetching water in the olden days. Anyone who goes to the stream with a pitcher to fetch water is required to be extra careful; if it breaks, no remedy, that is the end.

You can now know what influenced the greater shout that suddenly broke out of the mouth of the king’s water carrier.

One of the king’s rivals found his way into the king’s palace. For two years, they were planning how to get into the government of the king and frustrate him. 

Who broke the pitcher?

The wicked servant!

This was one of the palace employees who found his way into the palace as the eyes to the king’s major rival. He took his time to study the palace very well. 

The spare key finds its way into the pocket of the King’s rival’s representative in the palace and gets it to the hand of the king’s rival to duplicate. 

It was the key that gave the rival access into the palace at midnight when the guards had deeply asleep. This couldn’t have been a coincidence. 

Investigation revealed that in the evening of the night that the incident occurred, the eyes to the rival brought a local wine in a narrow calabash for the boys to drink. They drank late at night, which actually made the guards sleep deep. 

They came in, took the pitcher, and smashed it to pieces right at the entrance of the palace. 

They were not interested in the pitcher, but to tamper with the happiness of the king and to tell him that he’s not safe if they want to get at him.

Protect Your Marriage.

Do you know that every marriage is like a pitcher? Numerous people desired marriages, but not all actually have what it takes to handle this desire.

Every marriage in life can be likened to a king’s pitcher that requires a lot of care and carefulness to avoid damage, It must be properly handled in order to produce the desired result. 

Marriage is very fragile and free, so much that, it is what you push to marriage that marriage pushes back at you. The appearance of every marriage is a product of the efforts of the couple in the marriage.

Every season is unique on its own, be it the dry season, raining season, or winter. No one can stop the emergence of these seasons in their time, but it can be controlled not to have a negative impact on him or her, especially the winter period. 

The way you expose yourself to the cold will determine the level of punishment it would inflict on your body. 

The way you expose your marriage to danger tells what the outcome would be.

Your marriage is like the king’s pitcher that must not be handed over to the third party, and if it would be, it must be well monitored to avoid unforeseen circumstances that cause the parties a life regret. 

There are many unfriendly friends out there who are actually waiting for your downfall and the downfall of your marriage to either further add to your pains or take over your marriage. Carefulness can prevent damages from befalling a marriage to avoid a bitter cry.

It is so sad that the expectation of so many people into marriages are often not realized because of some unknown and unimaginable forces that are positioned around the marriage, waiting to consume the couple. The more they look, the less they see.

Trust no one with your marriage, as the king trusted the palace staff. The newest staff who could go that far in the palace to lay his hands on the spare key into the palace must be very delicate and smart. No one even suspected him of such an act, ever. Maybe they were too careless.

The physique and undefined gesture of your friend may throw your spouse imbalance to start seeing things differently, which may lead to your regret.

The newest palace staff was on double wages. The wages from the palace and the other one from the king’s major rival. The loyalty of the traitor goes to the major employer, which is the palace external force. 

What he had to gain was the force behind the action. He never thought of death. He who is ready to damage or take over your marriage does not think of consequences.

It is you that will not allow their erosion to pull down your structure.

Be careful of those who are with you in your marriage; they can form internal forces that can open the door of your marriage to the external ones, to break your home or relationship. 

Not a good friend.

Josephine, out of excitement, rushed to her friends to break the news of a new marriage proposal she had from her boyfriend, who proposed marriage to her and to tell them of her acceptance of the proposal. 

As she broke the news, you mean Alidaku, and have you accepted the proposal; a closest friend out of others asked? Yes, Alidaku and I have accepted, “she replied! 

Alidaku is the name of her boyfriend. While others joined her in the celebration, this closest friend’s look was sad. 

What could make this her friend behave very strange? Only herself can say.

The most important thing here is that Josephine must be careful of how the information about her relationship further gets to this her friend. She should also work to block all the access the friend may have into her relationship to avoid unpleasant surprise.

If possible, she can let her fiance know about the reaction to both guide against any danger that may arise from that subsequently.

A broken pitcher is gone, can never be amended, and if possible, it may no longer be useful for anything. Guide your marriage and guide it jealously. 

If you allow a stranger into your marriage, and it breaks, you will suffer it. If not you, but your children. It’s also part of the fruits of your labour. You will still share out of it.

Be aware of those who will ask you to get out of your marriage. They will be the ones that will replace you as a husband to the same woman they asked you to push out and to be a wife to the same husband you left.

LESSONS

1. When a battle is over, don’t think the battle is completely dead. Be watchful; it may want to resurface through any means. Early detection and crushing make you a winner.

2. Don’t expose your most valuable to the strangers.

3. The secrets of your family are for your family. Others can hear and turn it to strength, while it becomes your weaknesses.

4. If the unwanted could gain access to the 

 king’s palace with no stress, don’t be too confident to leave any stone unturned about your marriage. 

Significance

You may not physically be in a royal palace but that your marriage is your palace. Protect everything thereof.