Do What Your Heart Tells U Too

Author: Justin Woody
From: Muldrow, USA
Age: 14
Date: 11th Jul 1999, 2:25 PM
Rating: 5
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Title: Do What Your Heart Tells U Too

One day long ago lived a man full of wisdom and knowledge. He
knew of all the great riches of life for he was a prince. He was born
with insurmountable blessings. He was heir to the throne. He was
going to be king one day. King of the finest kingdom in the land in
those days. One day he would be powerful, so powerful he could have
anything on earth; for his father had nearly conquered the known
world. One day it would all be his.
He grew up with all the love and affection a child could have. He was truly a parents dream. He was handsome, charming, and was a
very intelligent man. He grew up fast and he grew up with all the good qualities a king should have; he had a kind and gentle heart, he was caring and loving, and last he felt sorry for his people. They were poor and homeless. Some had no homes to live in at all. He knew in his heart he had to fix that.
Years past and his father thought it was time for him to have a
wife. He was happy how he was and insisted that time would only tell
what his heart would need. So his father let up and let him remain
happy as he was.
In time he learned all his studies and thought it was time he should be allowed to go out into the world. He asked his father to let him go from the castle.
"Father, please let me go out into the kingdom. Let me see those
wondrous things I have studied about. Just for one day let me go out
into the streets and into the marketplace."
"Yes, son it is time. Go out and see what will be yours. Go out
now."

So with this the young man saddled up his horse and rode from the
castle to see what all would be his someday.
On his way he saw many people of all shapes and sizes, nationalities and ethnic origins. He knew these were his people. All the people of the land were kind hearted and gentle always lending a helping hand.
The young prince was dressed in normal clothes nothing fancy, he
only wanted to see the land not draw attention to royal status.
Along the road he saw a family in a little run down shanty with many children running around outside. He knew the parents must be just barely surviving. He went to each child and gave them a large sum of money to give to their parents. He knew it would help.
The children asked, "What master can we do to repay you?'
The prince kindly answered, "Do what your heart tells you too."

Further down the road he saw a man that was at the marketplace
that was trying to buy a horse. The prince heard the man say that he
had worked very hard for years to buy the horse. The merchant just
raised the price of the horse and the man could not make the payment. The man walked away from the merchant with a sad look; for he needed the horse to work in the fields. Without this horse he couldn't plow the fields and raise the crops which he had too; to provide food for his family. The prince went to the merchant and handed over the money for the horse. Also he bought a saddle and a saddle bag for the horse. In the saddle bag he placed 100 gold shillings with would last the man quite along time. It was enough alone to provide lots of food for the family. The prince then followed the man that could not buy the horse. He gave the horse to the man. The man thanked him a lot and said, "What can I do master to repay you?"
The prince answered saying, "Only what your heart tells you to."
And the man thanked him and left.

Then as the sun was setting it was time for the man to head back
home. He raced his horse to the castle where he saw a young woman
in a field who had past out from hand plowing a field. He went to her
and placed her on his horse and led her to the house near the field.
When he grew near the little shack the woman woke up and asked the
man who he was. The prince answered Alex. She was tired and couldn't see very well but she knew he looked very familiar. She had seen him today; she knew she had. He told her the horse was hers to have, and she thanked him so much saying that her father would be so appreciative. She asked the man, "What master could I do to repay
you?"
The prince very sweetly answered and said, "Only what your heart
feels and tells you to."
With that she passed out again and the man led her to the house
and left. The mother quickly came out to see the young woman on the
horse, but could not figure out why she had the horse and how she
was home. She would have to wait till the morning till the young
woman would wake up.
The man walked home and was welcomed back to the castle. He
took to his bed and fell fast asleep. He dreamed about the girl he had helped; for she was so beautiful, but had laid there so helpless. He hoped she was all right. One day in time he would go and make sure.

The next day came and everyone woke up in the land. The man
thought about the girl while the mother was trying to wake up the girl
from her deep sleep. The girl awoke quickly and asked where the man
was that saved her. The mother did not understand.
The girl then went into telling the mom what had happened the
night before. How she had passed out from heat exhaustion and would have frozen in the cold that night if the mysterious man would not have came and saved her. The mother was already in a great mood that morning. The daughter asked the mother, "Why are you so happy?"
The mother replied, "Because your little brothers and sisters last night brought into the house 50 shilling each. I couldn't believe it. They said some man just gave it to them and said something about do what your heart tells you too."
Right then and there lightning bolts flashed in her mind. She had remembered a man the day before talking to the children. She saw
him give them something. She also saw the young man later that
evening at the market. She remembered that the man just gave a
horse to another man in need, but she couldn't see who.
The mother exclaimed, "Your father will be so happy when he
comes home from the market. He will now have plenty of money to buy that horse he wanted and we will have plenty left over, and we already have a horse that the mysterious man gave you!"
"Yes mother he will be happy!"
The girl went about her day with all her chores but could not forget the man who had saved her. She couldn't believe she had seen two men all in the same day be so caring for others. She just whispered to her self if I could only find a man just like one of them my heart would be so happy.
The girl finished her chores and saw her father riding a horse miles a way. She saw him with a happy look on his face. He had never
looked this wonderful before. The young woman raced out to him to
tell him of all the things that had happened in the past day. She got to him and yelled that is a very pretty horse. The father said, "Can you believe somebody gave it to me. Go get your mom and I will tell her the good news.
The family with all the children and and the mother and daughter
all met in the little house. The father started out by saying, "Children we are going to be all right; we are going to make it. A man yesterday gave me a horse for free and in the saddle bag was 100 shillings. We will now have plenty to eat."
The mother said, "That's great; guess what happened to us?"
We were blessed just the same father. A mysterious man saved
your daughters life and then another man gave all the children 50
shillings each."
"That's over 500 shillings we have now." The father said, "Children we must thank the good Lord for all these blessings. One day maybe we will be able to repay all three of these men that have helped us."

Weeks went by and the girl never forgot the man that had saved her life. She began thinking about him more and more and then one day it hit her that the man that had saved her had said the way to repay him was to do what her heart told her to do he also told the children that too. That was so weird because they were the same thing. She dashed to the field where her father was plowing with both horses they had received weeks before. She asked him very excitedly, "What did the man who gave you the horse say to you when you were leaving?"
The father replied, "He told me that the way to repay him was to do what my heart told me to do. That was all he said, daughter!"
The girl dashed to her favorite spot on earth a little place near the pond where the flowers were always in bloom, where a stream rolled
gracefully near by, and where the grass was green and plush. She sat
for hours thinking of her Prince Charming the man who had saved her
life and also rescued her family from hunger. She was eternally
grateful and wished that she could one day find this man and make
him hers. She knew this could not be for he was too good to be hers.
He must at least be a part of a noble family with all the money he had. He would not like a poor girl that lived out in the country. She thought about him night and day, but she thought she had no chance.

On the other side of the picture the young man for weeks had
thought of the young beautiful girl. He wanted to go out again and
find her so he asked his father.
"Father may I go out into your kingdom once again.
The father replied, "May I ask you why?"
"Remember father when you wanted to find me a wife and I told
you time would only tell what my heart wanted. My heart has grown
toward a beautiful face in my dreams and I must, I MUST go and find
her. If I don't, father my heart will never know what it really wanted! Please father let me go. I beg you."
"Tradition has never allowed this son, but to the heart everything is allowed. Please be careful, and go out and and let your heart be free.

The young man left and went out into the kingdom that one day
would be his. He went along the path all day until the night came and
he came to a pond. He noticed its beauty and stopped to rest. He
looked up into the night sky and thanked God for all the blessings he
had. He also prayed this prayer:
"Dear Lord I know I am not everything I should be. I try to be the best prince and person I could be. Please give me the knowledge to be a good king one day. Let me rule the land with you in my heart. Dear Lord if I could have one thing in life would you please let me have the girl that lives in my dreams please let her be mine. And if that is not to much to ask please show me a sign that what I have asked for is not too much."
With that coming right of his lips just as if God looked down on
him with compassion a star flew across the night sky. It was a sign he knew it. And with that he fell asleep with her in his dreams.

Miles away the young woman woke up early. She had a dream that
night. The dream was so real. She was at the pond and there was
light, tremendous light. She didn't know what it was, she just knew
she must go to the pond to see what that light was.
For two hours she raced faster than ever to the pond that made her feel so good. As she was running as fast as she could words came
down from heaven saying, "Do What Your Heart Tells You To." That
was the same thing the man had told her almost 1 year ago. She knew
what she would find at the pond would change her life forever.

The man's eyes wandered as he looked over the meadows the streamed the country side. When he was looking his eyes saw the most beautiful sight they had ever seen before it was the Girl!
He got up and raced toward her. She was also running also as fast as her legs would let her.
When they were only 100 yards apart their eyes met and they were
at peace with the earth. They saw it in one anothers eyes that they
were the ones they had waited for all there life. They were the ones
that they had searched for. They were so excited, but they were also
scared for they knew not what there future would hold, they just knew
it would be wonderful.
As they finally reached each other they flew into one anothers arms.
The girl said, "You are the one. Thank you so much for all that you have done for my family."
Then the man said to the beautiful girl, "If every time I thought of you I was given 1 red rose by God right now you would be standing in the most beautiful garden ever. It would be full of millions of red roses streaming across my fathers kingdom. Not a place would be
bare. For not a time do I not think of you.

The Man and Woman talked for hours; they caught up on each
other and they were ready to begin the rest of their lives. The man told the girl that he was a prince; that in time she would be a queen. The girl replied, "I already knew it. Just the way you did things had a noble heir about. You are truly a king among kings!" she exclaimed.
The Young woman then took the man took meet the family he once
rescued from hunger. The children were now older and the parents up
in age. They thanked him over and over but they truly could never
repay him for what he did. he changed there lives forever. He told
them who he really was. And told them that if they were willing they
could come with him and never hunger again. They could live in his
castle forever. They would never be cold or scared again. They would
live happily ever after. The Young Prince and The Young Woman fell in
love and together in time they ruled the kingdom together, and THEY
LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

This Shows Us That The Heart Will Only Tell In Time What You Want


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