The Willing Prophet

Elena Tucker
3 min readMar 15, 2024
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Prophets of the good Lord above are reluctant, in general. It’s understandable. People don’t like being told what to do. Furthermore, we don’t like being told that we’ve been bad and now we have to work really, really hard to fix all our mistakes to make it up to a deity most of us don’t see and don’t hear, but who judges us harshly (and sometimes swiftly as well). And, by the way, “I’ll save you from your most immediate enemies, but don’t expect too…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.