You cannot read the father's feelings on this, but you proceed to explain. He thanks you, but does not seem to get it.
After thanking you for your time, he takes his son back to the orc barracks.
--M. J. Young
Nikolaj Rising
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Thu Dec 3 2009 2:32 am #
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Nikolaj
Member"Okay, after the recent prayer hearings I was expecting a revival to start happening. Good thing that God put my feet back on the ground.", I thought as I saw Bredd and his father leave.
I'm dropping the study for tonight and call it a day, playing a game with the men in the barracks again. Some mundane relaxation.
Then sleep and the next day. I touch the point of the men coming in late that night in my evening prayer tonight (if they haven't yet arrived), yet I try to restrain myself not to pray for them, but to rest in the assurance that God will take care of them, and thanking Him for that.
I could move on to the next day, but there might be news from the men who return or not.
Thu Dec 3 2009 8:29 pm # -
The men with the sheep are not expected back for several days. This is one reason your baptismal service is delayed.
The next day, Bredd says that his father was very understanding of his decision to embrace what he calls a "human" religion, although the older orc has concerns that an orc would not be welcome in such a faith.
--M. J. Young
Fri Dec 4 2009 12:41 am # -
Nikolaj
MemberI tell Bredd that he does not need to worry. He will be accepted in the faith. "It's usually the people that are already in the faith that are the ones not accepting. God has already accepted you. And I have a feeling that he will use you in a great way."
I smile. "How would you feel about speaking to a great crowd of men who want to know what baptism is about?", I ask him.
Sat Dec 5 2009 3:41 pm # -
"Why would they listen to me? And shouldn't you do that?"
--M. J. Young
Sun Dec 6 2009 11:11 pm # -
Nikolaj
MemberI expected that answer and I take my bible and open it up. I take my bible and open it up at John 13.
I read the story of how Jesus served his followers and ho to be able to be a master, someone needs to be able to serve. It's all about humility. "Will they be able to take this message from you, or do they feel themselves to be more important?", I ask him.
"I will first introduct you. And if they make too much of a fuss, I will handle it and explain it to them. Do not worry."
Tue Dec 8 2009 6:47 pm # -
He shrugs. "O.K. But if they have questions I will probably let you answer them."
You turn your attention to working on the leather coloring projects, developing the techniques and the colors so you can produce some better quality materials. Robert seems satisfied with your progress. "We didn't expect you to become a master leatherworker overnight," he says. "Just keep working and your skills will improve."
You have three days until the men are scheduled to return.
--M. J. Young
Tue Dec 8 2009 8:55 pm # -
Nikolaj
MemberDuring these three days I'll refresh the message of baptism with Bredd and prepare him to share it on the meeting.
The day before the meeting I will pray to God that He will make all things work out and that He would speak his message to the people. I'l make it one of my prayer walks. Rather then revealing Christ, the attempt is now to make them be open for the message of a young orc and to accept it into their heart. I ask God to prepare the people.
During the day we're now at I will also pray that God will prepare the men and their hearts for this message, through thoughts, dreams, events or whatever else God likes to use for it. This will take 15 minutes, hands help up into the air and a short period of praying in tongues. My eyes will be closed.
I thank master Robert for his complement and ask him if we can do something togheter again. I remember him mentioning a saddle.
Wed Dec 9 2009 4:32 pm # -
Nikolaj
Member-- 2nd post --
I also paint a picture of a common fruit. If an orange is common, I'll paint an orange, if apples are common, I'll paint an apple. This will be pretty big. I need to be able to hold it up so a small crowd can see it. I will be using a square piece of wood and some of the paints still left in my painting box that I versed with.
ooc: I was wondering if ever since I thaught Qormlach, that teaching to someone from a culture that is different plus the not being able to correctly interpret facial expressions would have counted as a new use?
Thu Dec 10 2009 7:22 pm # -
Remind me to cover those prayers next time.
Master Robert agrees to start working with you on a saddle later this week.
Humans would be more familiar with apples, which grow on trees in some of the gardens kept by ranchers. Orcs would be more familiar with oranges, which grow in the jungles farther south.
And I agree on the teaching new use.
--M. J. Young
Sat Dec 12 2009 4:14 am # -
Nikolaj
MemberI decide on apples then. I draw a picture of an apple, large enough so everyone in the meeting place can see it. I'll do that on wood or on the white sheet I used at first for the wordless book illustration. But I'd preffer wood if I can find it.
Then, let's move on to the meeting. Thanks for the new use!
Sat Dec 12 2009 10:19 am # -
They don't really have boards lying around here. They have to make them to make flooring (and in the main house paneling), and walls are usually done with logs or half-logs. You might get a cross cut, something like a disk four or five inches thick of the end of a trunk, which would be not more than two feet in diameter and rather heavy; the saw markings would make the faces rough, although you probably have tools that would suffice to smooth it, given a few hours work.
--M. J. Young
Sun Dec 13 2009 10:33 pm # -
Nikolaj
MemberThen I'll use the dull white sheet. I also take the sheets with me for a small recap of last meeting before really kicking into the meeting's fireworks.
Do I have to get permission for Bredd to be there? If so, from who? I'll try Mr. Robert first if Bredd does not know who.
By the way, walls made of logs. Cool new visual for my imagination! Thanks!
Mon Dec 14 2009 6:14 pm # -
Yeah, I keep forgetting that log cabins are so very American. I remember that in Verse Three, Chapter One I wrote that my character in the Sherwood Forest scenario built a log cabin based on having worked with Lincoln Logs, and my Australia-based editor had never heard of them and did not believe that you could learn to build anything real from playing with something like Lego Blocks. But Lincoln Logs are much more like real logs, straight wooden bars with notches carved in them to interlock with each other, and although it's not exactly like building a real log cabin (there are companies in America that sell log home building kits, a lot better constructed and insulated than the ones from the pioneer days but on the same principles) it is extremely similar.
Is this the baptism itself to which you want to take him, or just a meeting on the ranch to explain baptism? If you're going to want him "after hours" you simply have to let the night watch know that you're keeping one of the slaves out (and probably his parents should also be informed). If you want to take him away from the central ranch area, you will have to check with Mr. Kucher, or at least with Zeke, the foreman.
--M. J. Young
Mon Dec 14 2009 10:31 pm # -
Nikolaj
MemberIt's the meeting. Sorry. It will be after hours. Should his parents hesitate, I'll invite them to come too and see what I do.
Here in Belgium (and especially Flanders) everything is made from bricks. The Flemish Brickwork is pretty famous even. Wouden houses seem so ancient to us. Like all could go up in flames at any time. It seems unwise. (I know it's not, it's engeniered or architectured in such a way that it's fire safe.)
Tue Dec 15 2009 8:54 pm # -
Part of that is because a half dozen centuries ago Europeans clear-cut the forests and burned them for fuel, staving off the cold of an encroaching ice age which early global warming averted--or that's what I gather from several sources. So wood is rather rare in western Europe, and other building materials have to be used. But you are right that wood buildings are more flammable than brick ones, and in America we have both, as well as building made of more steel and glass than anything else.
Bredd's parents are uncomfortable about this human religion, but they do not have permission to leave the orc barracks to attend the meeting. (They do not work for you. Bredd's mother works in the garden and yard and his father works with butchering and preserving meat.)
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 17 2009 12:54 am # -
Nikolaj
MemberIf they preffer to be there I'll see if I can talk with their masters. Who knows, they might be coming to the meeting too. I'll try to work on the emotional spot of "They want to know what their child is doing? Wouldn't you want the same for your kids?" if they would not want at first.
Thu Dec 17 2009 7:48 pm # -
You manage to find the man in charge of the meat processing, but he blows you off, not wanting his workers out at some meeting when they should be resting. He's not going himself, as he has his religion and doesn't have time for more than that.
One of the Kucher's daughters oversees the garden work, and she's surprised at your request. "Why, Mr. Nikolaj, you speak about them as if they were people. I'm sure that the mother cow is disturbed when we take the calf away, but it's not at all like people would be. What gives you the idea that it's different with orcs?"
--M. J. Young
Fri Dec 18 2009 4:52 am # -
Nikolaj
MemberOh boy, the Kuchers themselves. This is on the edge. A quick silent prayer for aid in what I will say and it's reception precedes my talk. (A bit like Nehemia's prayer)
"Dear madam, that is because I believe them to be people. Well, persons would be the right word. Even the fact that it chooses for a religion it had not ever heard before convinces me of their humanity or personhood. Should you join the meeting you can judge for yourself whether or not this is the case. I intend to show not only what my religion is about, but that orcs can also choose for it from their hart."
I am polite and smiling through the entire talk. As far as I can manage. It would not be hard, but I could be caught by my enthousiasm and could give a wrong impression.
Mon Dec 21 2009 6:41 pm # -
You feel that God has given you the words to say; but Miss Kucher's face hardens. "Mr. Nikolaj, I do not know about your foreign beliefs, but I assure you that I and my family are loyal to Gaia. Thank you, but I will not be coming to your meeting. Good day to you, sir."
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 24 2009 2:24 am # -
Nikolaj
MemberEDIT THAT:
Instead of just moving on I go to the barracks and while walking, after feeling a bit defeated I will make a detour and do the prayerwalk, praying that somehow the owners of the parents would still let him come and that, if possible, the owners themselves would come too and be reached with the gospel.
Sat Dec 26 2009 10:56 pm # -
Thank you for the reminder. The second prayer has had some effect.
I go to the barracks and while walking, after feeling a bit defeated I will make a detour and do the prayerwalk, praying that somehow the owners of the parents would still let him come and that, if possible, the owners themselves would come too and be reached with the gospel.
Your previous prayer walks have been forty minutes--which is a lot longer than it takes to walk from the house to the barracks. I would like to get the details of this prayer clear before I start crunching numbers. Thanks.
--M. J. Young
Sun Dec 27 2009 3:02 am # -
Nikolaj
MemberThat's why I said that I'd make a detour. So I would use more time. I would just walk until my prayer is finished. (also good to know is that when praying in tongues it's most of the time in a whisper and not just in my head.) So it would be the same in time and other aspects, only that the subject/request changes a bit.
Sun Dec 27 2009 10:45 pm # -
This--
praying that somehow the owners of the parents would still let him come
--might be a linguistic slip, or it might be a confusion. There is no question about whether Bredd can come; that's already acceptable, because the authority for that lies really with you. If "him" in this phrase means Bredd, those who oversee the parents won't have anything to say about what Bredd does. I'm guessing that "him" means "them", the parents, but don't want to presume.--M. J. Young
Wed Dec 30 2009 5:33 am # -
I think we can leap to the meeting?
Bredd is there, and his mother is there. His father is not, but quite a few of the human men and women are present.
Miss Kathrine Kucher is also there. She stands in the back, watching the proceedings.
You may proceed.
--M. J. Young
Thu Dec 31 2009 1:32 am # -
Nikolaj
MemberBefore the meeting I would pray with Bredd (if he wants), to ask God to bless this meeting and speak to the people who are there, through the words and actions we will do and through the 'object lesson' involving Bredd. (involving revelations to those whoem He hasn't revealed Himself to yet. This will probably take 15 minutes each and out loud.
I will also have welcomed Katherine Kucher and Bredds mom in person, as well as some other friends.
Then we will start the meeting. I will start with a small prayer. About five minutes. In it I will ask God to bless us and speak to us. I will also ask Him to reveal himself to those that do not know Him yet. I will be standing before a crowd* with my eyes closed and praying out loud.
* I need to have a crowd to pray over that is present. (or it could be everyone listening in a certain crowdlike environment. (let's say 30 square meters?)
Then I will refresh the wordless book as an intro, to let everyone remember.
Thu Dec 31 2009 2:07 am # -
Nikolaj
Member--2nd post--
I could already go on and let Bredd take stage, but I think I just gave you 2 new prayers to work on and I want to see how well the people remember the wordless book.
My main goal is to work with questions and to likewise see how well they remembered. If some of the people want to testify about how they experienced something of it in their life I will leave room for one testimony per color. If none come that is not bad either. Then I hope my questions made them realize that this needs to become practical, to become real. That they can expect change and a personal relationship with God.
My second objective is that Catherine and Bredds parent(s) get introduced to the gospel (once more for some). And I hope that it will impact them in a good way. In any case I am telling them and presenting them with the choice. They will no longer have any excuse on judgment day.
And thus I will wait upon the crowd's reaction to this opener before I go on.
Thu Dec 31 2009 2:23 am #
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