The Story of King Tut

                                                                    King Tut
King Tut lived in a hut. In this hut he was called King. His parents gave him everything he ever could possibly want. Lavish clothes, plenty of food and toys. All his life people waited on his every beck and call. King Tut was a selfish King. He looked at his self in mirrors all day fantiscizin about himself. He ate all day. People from the village where ordered to come to King Tut's hut and entertain him every two hours.

King Tut never left his hut. He was told that if he ever left the hut he could not be King anymore. After King Tut's 18th birthday he decided to leave the hut anyway. Once King Tut left the hut, He felt free. He never realized how small his hut was, how trapped he felt. He first noticed the trees and the plants and the flowers. He felt the breeze and watched the sun as it began to set. King Tut marveled at creation. As he continued to walk around the village he saw children naked and hungry. He saw men fighting each other and women begging for food for thier families. He saw broken families, poverty and pain and all of this was only 2 miles from his hut. King Tut told the people that he would help them. But the people laughed in his face. The poor people of the village didnt know him as King.  In this place his identity didnt matter. King Tut became very ashamed. In his hut he was selfish, He helped no one, He ate more than he needed and he had more than enough, and just outside his hut were people starving and without anything. King Tut realized that he was never King at all. He was self consumed with himself. He never knew that the world was about things bigger than him. King Tut was humbled by this realization. King Tut hurried back home. He apologized to his family for his bad treatment and his selfishness. King Tut said he would gladly give up being King for he had done nothing for the people of his village. He now became Tut. Tut started working as a hunter in the village. He hunted and brought back food for all the people of the village. Tut finally was proud of himself. He was able to help others and provide for himself. Tut decided he wanted to explore more of the world and serve others. He realized that the world was so much bigger than him. When he was King Tut he thought the world revolved around him so the world seemed very small, but once he left his hut. He realized the world was so full of many things and he didnt matter. Tut was taught humility and service. Tut was given a second chance to live his life out with great purpose.

Sometimes we get like King Tut. We stay trapped in our own heads and think that we are the only things that matter. But once we step outside of ourselves. We are reminded that the world is going on whether we acknowledge it or not. Thier is work to be done. May we open our hearts to humility and service and live out our live with great purpose.  Amen