Bring in the Bees!

Bring in the Bees!

During their time, the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon were considered to be the wisest persons in the world. When the Queen of Sheba came to meet King Solomon, she did so with a test to "show him up." An apocryphal story say that she had her greatest artists create and paint artificial flowers, while her royal gardeners brought real flowers of the same variety. She placed them in equal number vases all around Solomon's thrown room and asked the King to distinguish as to which were real and which were false, but with the conditions that he could not get up and touch or smell them.

Solomon realized his reputation was at stake and the whole situation looked hopeless. Yet before the Queen could enjoy her victory, King Solomon got a brilliant idea. He gave an order to his servants to bring in the bees from the royal apiary. When the bee keepers brought in the hives, the king ordered that they be opened and, as the bees naturally flew out and migrated towards the real flowers, all King Solomon had to do was simply point each one out!

Seeing that he had bested her, the Queen of Sheba had to admit that King Solomon was wiser than she.

Each day we are asked to decide what, are the real and valuable things in life. We are also given the task of detecting that which is false and artificial. We must be wise like King Solomon and figure out how to distinguish good from bad, right from wrong, falsehood from truth. And if necessary, never be ashamed to ask for help - even from the lowliest source!