Reminiscence

This is the message of Ps. Jacob Nahuway on Sunday, Dec.25th 2011 at GBI Mawar Saron, Kelapa Gading. The message spoke to me and freshened my heart and mind. Full and complete preparation is needed for delivering God's message. As a pastor, he/she should prepare it well. What message should we deliver for the people? Pastors should deliver the message that speaks God's truth, based on God's truth (according to the bible), motivates people, gives guidance and answers people's needs. Personally, it speaks to me that I must prepare myself and the message well before I deliver it to people; therefore, I need to discipline myself to allot time for the preparation. There are 3 people that are involved in our blessings. In other words, we need to share our blessings with these 3 kinds of people. Who are they? 1. We and our descendants (children, grandchildren, family) 2. Levites (God's servants: our pastors, reverends, missionaries) 3. Foreigners/outsiders (pauper, poor pe...

The making of shadow puppets is a long and painstaking process. Skin of a female buffalo of about four years of age, the ideal type for texture and strength, is dried, scraped and cured for up to 10 years to achieve stiffness and eliminate warping and splitting. On maturity, skins are carved and perched to fashion the required character. This technique involves extensive knowledge of iconography and physiognomy, since all lines, angles of the head, slant of the eyes and mouth, profile of the body are specific to the character. When carving is completed, the traditional pigments including powdered burnt bone for white, lampblack, indigo, yellow ochre and cinnabar for red in a gelatinous medium mixed from dried egg-white. Gold leaf and pigment are applied in a medium of protein glue derived from fish bones. The cempurit or manipulating rods are made of buffalo horn, while the studs attaching the jointed arms t othe torso are of metal (sometimes gold), bone, and bamboo or in rare courtly...