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Oh that’s so sad.
Poor Hans.
Poor boys all of them.
Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God
@esther-c The cover!!! 🤩🤩
@freed_and_redeemed Aw, Hans and Felix ðŸ˜Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ~ C.S. Lewis
I’m moving the conversation to this topic so we’re not just chatting in the middle of the snowball fight (it’s easier to get hit that way, you know! Lol).
YES!!! It’s so amazing to see God working in people. What are some key things you’ve learned from the experience?
Oh man! There is so much! One thing I’ve been thinking about a lot, especially since I’ve gotten back and have been able to reflect on everything, is what exactly is discipleship and how do we live it out? Looking at discipleship in the time of Jesus, it was a common practice for young Jewish men to learn under the rabbis, with the goal of one day becoming a rabbi themselves. So essentially, the disciples of Jesus were living life with Him, learning His ways with the goal of becoming like Him. For us today, that can look like living in relationship with Jesus with the intent of becoming more like Him. If discipleship is truly happening, there will be fruit in our lives, because living connected to the vine brings forth fruit. If we aren’t looking more like Jesus, then it’s probably just empty religion we’re living from and not from true relationship with Him. Then there’s also the instruction of Jesus for us to make disciples of all nations- as we’re being discipled by Jesus, we are also to make disciples. I used to think evangelism was all about sharing the Gospel and seeing people saved, and yes, that’s part of it, but I think Jesus had a bigger goal in mind than simply getting souls to heaven. It’s also about bringing the kingdom of God into the earth, and that will only happen through people who are learning the ways of God and are walking in relationship with Him- through discipleship. So anyway, that’s been a little bit of my thought process lately, and asking God what it looks like for me to partner with Him in discipleship here at home!
There are other things I’ve learned, too- I think I learned a lot relationally about building friendships and taking initiative in starting conversations or doing activities instead of always waiting to be invited into something. Living with people other than my family for five months also opened my eyes to ways that I’ve grown up differently from others. The mindset I’ve had for years is that if it’s not my mess, I don’t have to clean it up- if it’s not my problem, I don’t need to deal with it. But during outreach, I realized that’s a pretty selfish way to live when I can choose to love others by serving them and cleaning things up even if I didn’t make the mess or taking initiative to do something like empty the trash or refill the water filter even if I wasn’t asked to do it. I’m pretty sure my mom tried to teach me this growing up, but it never really sunk in until I was living with other people and realizing, oh this actually really bothers some people that they always feel the need to take responsibility for what the rest of us are neglecting because we feel like it’s not our problem.
There are so many other things I could go on about. I learned a lot just by watching how other people live and their relationships with God, and from observing my staff, I learned more about leadership, too. But this post is long enough anyway, haha!
"Real love is for your good, not for your comfort." -Justin Whitmel Earley
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I have a fun question! I’ve already figured out my answer for my story, but I asked my friends this question and got so much traction that I wanted to post it here too. I love hearing what different people come up with. My friends offered me wildly different ideas.
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How would you fake your own death in this setting?It is a fantasy city, worker district level with 1910s factories (most of them still using older equipment), and there is very little development in forensics. The crime rate is high. You have to convince the authorities, your family, and a criminal organization.
The criminals believe you have critical information, and they might put your family in danger if you don’t give the goods to them. If you are ‘killed,’ they might believe someone else took the information, and your family will be safe from them.
The criminals also know YOU know THEYÂ want the information. So it has to be a pretty convincing death.
Resources: Anything with the technology level, factory equipment, animal livestock. You’re free to use a lot of things. You have a small town home, a real sword, a typewriter, and several pieces of jewelry. You have a pile of chains and a huger pile of sawdust in your backyard. There is a river running through the city towards the sea, and you are free to rent boats.
Your history: You are a good young person with a family. They live a ten minute drive away. You’ve always been a little headstrong and restless, and you have a history of getting into physical fights. You might have some debts to pay in the fighting ring. Most people believe you are intelligent, but also that you are too quick to act and might struggle with covering up your tracks. You have self-destructive habits, almost quit college because of them, and you recently lost someone. Thus people may assume things about you based on your previous behavior.
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Any creative ideas?… *Crickets*
#ProtectAdolinKholin
Um, what?!
Lol.
Idk… Maybe use my shoes, extra clothes, sawdust, and some of those heavy chains to make it look like I sank into the “bubbly creek” assuming the factories dump into the river so most likely create one. It’s risky, but the first thing that came to mind. XD
You have listened to fears, child. Come, let me breathe on you... Are you brave again? -Aslan
This is not something I would enjoy doing, but it’s a thing. So here.
1) Get some boots a couple sizes too big, a large overcoat, a pair of gloves, and some blood from a butcher (or kill a dozen or so pigeons).
2) Fill a burlap sack with a bed sheet, linens, ect. Set up the parlor with your typewriter facing a window as if you were writing with your back to the door.
3) One night, put on boots and overcoat. Take sack and blood into the parlor. Brew a cup of tea.
4) Bust some stuff up, knock over chairs, break a tea cup, ect. Shadow box your way around the room with bloody gloves. Fling some blood here and there. Dump the rest into the burlap sack.
5) Drag sack from room out the back service door, lifting occasionally to disturb the path, and making sure you don’t run out of blood.
6) Ditch sack, boots, and bespattered overcoat in the river (possibly leaving the coat hung up on something).
7) Disappear.
First Grand Historian of Arreth and the Lesser Realms (aka Kitty)
Fork the GorkWell, if I ever need to fake my death I know who to call.
🎵It takes a long time to wait 🌻
*Exaggerated bow*
Here’s my card.
First Grand Historian of Arreth and the Lesser Realms (aka Kitty)
Fork the GorkHonestly, That’s what I was about to write, (except I didn’t think of the sack part, I just thought of dragging a heavy object.)
But yeah, that’s what I would do.
Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God
Then maybe it’s a good plan.
Well, the object doesn’t need to be heavy. It needs to leave a convincing imprint on the scene. This the fabric filled sack.
First Grand Historian of Arreth and the Lesser Realms (aka Kitty)
Fork the GorkI don’t know. Make it look like I was so depressed I lost that person close to me that I became focused on the fighting ring and paid my debt with my life. But how to do that exactly, I’m not sure.
Great ideas, guys XD My plan was most similar to Koshka’s because the river leaves less clues, except she uses a young hog instead of pigeons, and she actually fakes her death twice. Once in an obvious fashion with some key clues of survival only the criminals would notice, then another death scene with very little evidence at all. That way, it looks like she tried to fake her death, got overconfident, and fell into someone else’s hands.
#ProtectAdolinKholin
Ooh, fun question. I would write a suicide note and throw one of my coats in the river so it looks like I drowned myself.
Tempus adest gratiae
Hoc quod optabamus,
Carmina laetitiae
Devote reddamus!
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