October 26. Breakfast and Bible reading came first this morning. Then prayer time and crocheting. After that I looked over my music lesson for today. Then I did a little walking around the house to get exercise for my legs. Daddy wanted to go out for a while so we went outside around the yard. Shortly Wan came along, however, so Daddy went back in to show Wan where the biggest leak was that needed to be patched up. I stayed out a bit longer. When I came inside, I found the info from JAARS to send to Christy and also got journal notes ready to send to Connie. Then I got out some frozen peas to cook for dinner when Andrew and Esther and their young son Jesi came for a visit. It had been a long time since we’d seen them. They said they’d been praying for us. This afternoon, I set up a 2021 calendar, and this evening, I got it printed out. All the students were here for class today. We are so thankful for all that they are learning and applying to their lives. I felt quite sad today as I taught the lesson on rock music to the class and had a new awareness of its danger and how Satan is beginning to use that music to destroy the lives of the young people here. October 27. After breakfast, quiet time, and crocheting this morning, I got busy at the computer searching for verses to go with the culture lesson on religion. By 10:00, I was good and ready for a break from sitting and using my eyes so Daddy and I went for a walk up the airstrip. The men were out there working on the fence and were just about ready to start putting the barbed wire around. After I came back, I sorted and washed greens before getting back to the computer. Just had a short time at the computer before cutting up the greens with some onions and getting them ready to be cooked. Came and did a little more verse searching, but I never did hear the pressure cooker get up to pressure. “We’re probably out of gas,” Daddy suggested. Sure enough—no flame under the pot. Too late to change the tank and get the greens cooked now. We’ll just go ahead and warm up our rice along with some leftover peas. I’ll mix my peas with my rice and add a little cheese and mix it with a little mayonnaise, mustard, and curry powder. So we ate our dinner, and afterward Daddy changed the bottled gas tank. Then we had our nap; and after nap, I cooked the greens. Then I finished up searching for verses and got copies of that page printed out so it would be ready for class. We didn’t use it today, however. We finished up the lesson section and will look at verses next time. The students had lots of interesting culture points today. There are several places that they considered holy ground (and some still do). One place is in the woods south of the village; another is somewhere along the small river west of the village and also a marshy place nearby; and another is at the big river Lamari. Women were never allowed to sleep at any of these places, but the place at the Lamari is no longer considered holy. When the young men were initiated, their initiation clothing and the bamboo flutes were considered holy. Women were not allowed to see the boys in their initiation clothing until a certain amount of time had passed. Then the boys’ faces, arms, and legs, would be painted; and the mothers would say, “Who are you? Are you my son?” When the initiated boys walked along the trail, if they came to a knoll or bend in the trail, they would make a lot of noise. That way, if a woman was coming along the trail from the other direction, the woman could turn and hide her face until the boy passed by. They also had a type of love spell in which a man would put nettle leaves in front of a lady’s door and pour water on them. Even though the woman did not see the man who did it, she would somehow become enamored with him. This was also used in a bad way by a man who wanted to take a married woman away from her husband. They also believed in a type of reincarnation, and some still do. If a child was born and they saw that his face was a perfect image of a father or grandfather who had died, they would say that that person had come back to life again. Also if a man was dying, and his son hadn’t taken good care of him before he died, he would tell the son that he would come back to haunt him. When a child was born that gave the parents a lot of trouble, they would say that was the father who had come back to trouble his son. I told them about the people in Indonesia who would wear the skull of a mother around their neck or use it as a pillow as a means of protection. They all said that they are afraid of the bones of dead people. “17) Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18) Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19) The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.” Habakkuk 3:17-19 One of my favorite portions of Scripture. I’m always thankful for the reminder that our rejoicing does not depend on circumstances. It is always in the Lord and His salvation. He will always be my strength and my victory.
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