The carpenter's wife

About the author :

    Lenora Worth has written 75 books for three different publishers. She reached a milestone when she received her 50th book pin from Harlequin. Her books have won both regional and national awards and she now has millions of books in print and is a NY Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author. Currently she is writing both Love Inspired and Love Inspired Suspense and Tule Publishing. Married to her childhood sweetheart, Lenora has two grown children and lives in Florida.

Pen name: Lenora Nazworth Less

Summary:

              The wife was sitting on the cot dangling her feet. When her feet hit something hard, she understood that it maybe his husband under the cot. She immediately planned to dupe her husband and teach - him a lesson. She gestured his friend that her husband is under the bed. When her friend tried to touch her hand she started shouting “If you try to touch me I will burn you to ashes”.

On hearing this, her friend inquired “Why you invited me to your place?”

She replied, “To protect my husband”. Upon this, her friend asked, “How? How you can protect your husband”.

She replied that today when I visited the temple and I prayed “Please Goddess give a long life to my husband”.

Then I heard a divine voice “Your swami will survive for six months and you will become a widow after six months”.

When I asked for a solution, the divine goddess voice suggested me “there is no escape for death, his life left for six months only”.

I requested the goddess “please suggest me a solution”

The goddess suggested me “go to bed with a stranger. Now death will follow the stranger and your husband will survive for a hundred years”.

On hearing this, the carpenter believed that his wife is honest with him. The foolish carpenter believed every word of the story as told by his wife.

He immediately came out of the bed “oh my dear wife I’m blessed to have an obedient wife like you” I was a fool to doubt you”. I thought you were not honest with me and you were cheating on me. The carpenter then put his wife on his shoulders. He paraded his wife all over the village and sang songs for her. The clever wife was very happy. She knew that her plan had worked. 

Moral: Always be careful and check twice and thrice.