The Fisher King

There was once a king. As a boy he needed to spend a night alone in the forrest,to prove his courage, so that he could become king. While in the forrest that night, he is visited by a sacred vision. Out of the fire appears the holy grail, a symbol of Gods Divine Grace. And a voice said, `` You shall be the keeper of the grail, so that it may heal the hearts of men.`` But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power, glory and beauty.And in a state of radical amaizement, he felt foe a brief moment not like a boy, but invisible like God. So he reached into the fire to take the grail, but the grail vanished leaving him with his hand in the fire, to be terribly wounded. As the boy grew older, his wounds grew deeper, until one day, life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in men, not even himself. He could not love or be loved, he was sick with experience. Slowly he began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool he was simple minded. He did not see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. He asked the king. ``What ailes you my friend`` The king replied, `` I am thirsty, i need some water to cool my throat.`` So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water, and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realised his wound begin to heal. He looked into his hand and there was the hole grail, that which he had saught all his life. He turned to the fool and said with amaizement `` How could you find that which my bravest could not`` The fool replied `` I dont know. I only knew that you were thirsty.