Devotion

I was searching through my bookshelf for something to read one day when I came upon an ancient manuscript that had been sitting there for I don’t know how long. The stories had gone unread, but I’d been told that this three-thousand-year-old tale held much excitement and many interesting truths.

I wondered why I hadn’t taken a keener interest in the narrative long before, given its pedigree? “Anything that has survived thousands of years must be a good story, right,” I said to myself?

So I b...