Hello everyone. Welcome to the talk. Today I'll be talking about an industry finding that I found in one of the connected car and I could able to hack into the car and I could do whatever I could. So, the title of the presentation is remote exploitation of Honda cars. I know most of the speakers in hacking relationships going to talk about the Honda cars. So, it was an accidental vulnerability that I found and during my research. Okay, so before going to the presentation, let me introduce myself. My name is Mohammed Shain. I'm a NAPSET engineer. I'm from India. I'm also a occasional bug bounty handle. I have a hall of aims in top companies like Google, Apple, etc. So I'm also the chapter leader of ASRG Kerala. ASRG is a group that deals with automotive cybersecurity. So I lead the chapter in Kerala. And we have been like conducting webinars talks in conferences like cocoon for the past one year. I'm also a volunteer at Defcon to random. Then I'm also an automotive photographer. So you could see my photographs in my Instagram handle I have mentioned it here. So today I'll be talking about a vulnerability that I found in one of Honda's cars and the vulnerability was in its API with which which was connecting to the telematics controller on it of the car. And I could hack into the API and gradually into the car. So the car is Honda City fifth gen. Okay, before moving to the talk like let's talk about the attacks of a car like I'm not a car hacker, but it's my like I love what we're searching about automotive cybersecurity. So, most of the time I work on the application and road application or iOS vulnerabilities. So, considering car we could briefly what breakdown it in the attack services into the by fire related attacks, telematics attacks mobile mobile application attack the OB to do attacks. So today, we'll be talking about the app vulnerability that I found and I could able to hack into the car. So, what are the advantages of mobile apps in automotive industry. The best answer is like it is easy to use and it has a great interface so anyone who knows to operate a mobile phone can use the dashboard or the interface and the application. So, he, he or she could work in the back of the car. That's why most of the car manufacturers are now moving to the mobile applications for controlling the cost. So, so what is a connected car, a connected car is one and it has its own connection to the Internet. And that's like an IOT device so when you connect your car to the Internet, it gradually becomes an IOT device. So, we know that there are multiple devices that are connected to the Internet right now like the refrigerators even everything everything is connected to the Internet. So, the cost car industry is also moving to the IOT category. So, there's a funny story like I started before starting focusing on the Honda car or the automotive hacking stuff. This was an article by or this was a research by Josh Gallos and he claims that he could hack into Internet connected products. And I was like, I was very much excited about this and I read the article and it was like he used a short and the Internet connected devices like that. The search engine that can be used to track Internet connected devices, the short and site. He used it to find the trucks or the telematics gateway units of the trucks and it was using a vulnerable protocol and not so secure protocol and it was a telnet and he used those telnet protocol to hack into the trucks. So, I was pretty much amazed by reading this and after that I started researching about telematics control unit. So, before that telematics gateway unit was the one that the researcher used to hack. The telematics gateway unit has high performance than a telematics control unit. The telematics control unit is an embedded hardware that is used to connect your car to the Internet. So, after that I, most of the research was on the telematics control unit and I found that car can be connected to another car or they can communicate to each other or car can be connected to the Internet to mobile phones or etc. So, telematics control unit was the main thing that it does mean. I have also started researching about the Bluetooth related attacks, why related attacks but in India we don't have much hardware or there are problems while purchasing the stuff that can be used to hack. So, my research was taken on with the mobile applications. So, I recreated those attacks like it was simple, I used short end to search the vulnerable telematics gateway units and I got some and I was like I researched about it or I played it with. Then I was like, yeah, it's cool. So, then there's an interesting thing that happened to me. The next day when I opened my laptop, there was an interesting Google advertisement. It was like, it was about a connected car. Okay, sorry. So, I think I'm going to like I'm going to read a card. So, three, two, one. Hello, everyone. Welcome to my talk. Today I'll be talking about a vulnerability that I found in one of the connected costs and the title of my presentation is a remote exploitation of conductors. So, this would be a research about me that was conducted a few months before I was able to hack into a Honda car, and by its vulnerable APIs that was controlling the telematics control unit. So, let's begin. Okay. Let me introduce myself. My name is Mohammed Shain. I'm an application security engineer, and I'm from India. I'm also an occasional but boundary handle. I have all of these in companies like Google, Apple, etc. So, yeah, from this, you could understand that I don't work in the automotive industry. So, this is my first talk in automotive or something like something that that is related to automotive. So, I'm also the chapter leader of ASRG Kerala. ASRG is Automotive Security Research Group. It's a group that deals with automotive security research, automotive vulnerabilities, etc. So, I, I like started this group, and here you go and currently we have, we have conducted workshop, sorry, workshops, we have conducted three, two, one. Let me introduce myself. My name is Mohammed Shain. I'm an application security engineer. I'm also an occasional but boundary handle. And the, and also the chapter lead. Hello everyone. Welcome to the talk today. I'll be talking about remote exploitation of Honda cars. This was a recent vulnerability in Honda car that was found by me a few months before. I, I was able to hack into a car through its vulnerable APIs. Before moving to the session, let me introduce myself. My name is Mohammed Shain. I'm an application security engineer and a bug bounty hunter. I do bug bounties occasionally. So, yeah, from my title you could understand that I'm not a automotive security engineer like I mostly work with work on the web application, mobile application security and automotive security is some kind of like part time or a free time job I research or I read about automotive security blogs. I watch videos in hacking villages. I love this stuff. So, then I'm also the chapter lead of ASRG KERLA ASRG is automotive security research group. B deals with automotive security research and the vulnerabilities that affects automotive components, etc. I'm also the volunteer at the counter and also an automotive photographer if you love car photos of motorcycle photos you could you should visit my Instagram profile. I have mentioned that. Okay, that's me. So, the vehicle that have that I have used for testing is a Honda city trip channel. It is a 2020 2020 model and the vulnerability was found three months before and now the vulnerability is completely fixed. So, this vulnerability was like, it's not a vulnerability that affects the hardware component it was a software related software in tissue. So it was very, it was a feedback. So, let's move. Okay. Before talking about the vulnerability, like, as a security or an app security engineer like we have multiple vulnerabilities like cross side scripting, SQL injections, etc. So, but when I moved to the automotive side it was not like that, you know, different cars have different components and previously we had work we didn't have much technology that were that was an automotive but now they are connected cause there are self driving cars, there are ADS, etc. So, breaking down the attack and surface. The thing that I like mostly is the telematics control unit and the mobile applications. There's a funny story behind that I will be explaining it later but these are the common entry points or the attack points in a car. So, mobile applications from those attack entry points will be like I'll be talking about the mobile applications, both iOS and Android. And why, why the car owners or the companies are adapting mobile applications to control their cars. The reason is pretty much simple. It's because it's easy to use. So, everyone uses a mobile phone or a mobile application everyone knows how to operate a mobile phone so it's pretty easy to handle a mobile application that has been connected to a car. So, this is the main reason why the mobile there's a drastic increase in the mobile applications or connected mobile applications to your car. Then, what is a connected car connected cars one it has on a which has its own connection to the internet so you could remotely control the car or you could remotely track your car, etc. This is a story behind my finding my finding is pretty much ready, you seem to find but this is where it all begin. I read an industry blog by Joe Scalos not day and he claims that he was able to hack into multiple trucks, the trucks through its vulnerable telematics gateway unit of the teachers. The reason or the vulnerability was in its protocol that is tell net and it was an unordinated telnet so he could have all the IPs and he could simply use the telnet protocol to hack into the truck. So I was like, wow, this is super and it's super cool because I know it's very easy to hack into a truck. Anyway, from that day on, I started researching about the word the telematics control units, or the mobile applications or the API is that are interacting with the telematics or the PCU. So, then, okay, the mathematics gateway unit is something that is a similar to PCU but it is what it handles much more throttle. And so I what mostly I used the Google or the session Google to search about telematics and the other stuff. And the reason why I'm telling him about Google is because there's a there's a thing behind it I'll show you. So, after that I recreated the attack from the blog I used short and to find the open ports and those telematics gateway units and I could able to work track those trucks like him. So I was like, wow, this is super cool. It's very easy to do a hack, because you know I have seen research and automotive research that is very complicated. Automotive security is something that it's not like web applications or the upset industries. It's, it's, it's little complicated due to the hardware level stuff so I was, I was like, oh, it's super cool and I, I was planning to do similar research on mobile applications. And that is that affects the mobile applications. Then, yeah, Google ad the next day I got a Google ad regarding any car that is found in my country. And this is a Honda city future. And this is the this is the first connected card and so I was like, well, it's cool. And I could see a mobile app that has been found in the app store as well as the play store. So I started reading about the cars and the car application. It contains more than 30 features. So, basically, the mobile application can be used to do anything to the car. So that means like you could start the engine, you could open the doors, you could what could open the boot everything. So I was like, wow, what if I hack the mobile application if I hack the mobile application. I could hack into the car as well. So that was my, that was the thing that was crashing my mind. So I started researching on the mobile application completely and these were the features of Honda connected you could see like there there's a entire deflation alert that means it contains a TPMS and it contains almost what everything that can be performed because and the interesting features where like we could like we could start the start the car. And the reason is like it is only possible in the automatic variant, you know, and you could unlock the doors, you could even open the boot, you could track the car, etc. So these were the four things that I was interested in. I went to about like I read about how the application controls the car just like it's there's a cloud server and that has been controlling the car and the request has been what going to be phone like so for example if you need to open the door of the car you could press the button in the mobile phone it sends an API request to the server and it what connects or the it interacts with the telematics control unit. So the first thing that I did was I downloaded the application and the mobile application and I reversed it, and I will be completed completely and I could see some API endpoints. So after the static analysis, I couldn't find anything interesting. There were some API keys that was not useful. So I what I free like I have sat for two days for finding some person and I didn't get anything. The static analysis part. And then I moved to the dynamic analysis and I personally love dynamic analysis dynamic analysis is where when we run the application and find the vulnerability. The application had some security controls like road detection and SSL pinning. So it's like you can't run this mobile application on a rooted or a jail broken device. It's a security control by the Honda team, but it is easily bypassed. So the reason why they did this was like, no, most of the security researchers or the attackers use router devices for testing the these applications so they, yeah, they by default place this as a security control. So then SSL pinning is a client side security control that that is used to pin certificates and while running the application, the certificates were checked with the certificates that are placed in the server. So this doesn't allow what manage the middle attack so you can't intercept the traffic of the application. So these were the only security controls that were placed in this mobile application. And tools for the trade for bypassing this you, you can use a router device or or emulators like Jenny motion or and tools. Trita for bypassing those controls like road detection and SSL pinning and both suite or HTTP toolkit can be used to analyze the traffic. So, then I won't. I opened the application via Frida like I injected a script that can be used to bypass the SSL pinning as well as the road detection. So now the application is all ready to to be performed a vulnerable to SSL. So I like this is the front page of the Honda Connect application and then there were there was a field for mobile number. So this is how the mobile application work. First, you are the user uses phone number. And he will get an RTP. It's a one-time password and he should enter it. He or she should enter it and then it moves to the M pin M pin as a second layer of protection that can that uses the biometrics of the phone or a four digit number that is created by the user. So this is how the app functions. So I, yeah, then I, I gave my number and I didn't get the award in the OTP or something. So I was like, why, then I contacted the Honda showroom. So I asked them about the application, like, actually, I, I didn't tell or I didn't tell them that I'm a security research. I, I call like a regular customer and I asked them and I understood about the application. So this, this is how the application performs. When you purchase the car, they will set all the, they will what configure all the number, the car, everything and they'll give you. So only thing the user need to know is like to log in with the OTP or the M pin. So, you know, the OTP, the M pin and he could use it to control the car. So the next thing I did was I conducted any of my friends who owns Honda cars, but most of them had a non-connected car that means it's not connected so can't perform any attacks there. So, after that I got a friend who, who gave me his car to test. So that was a connected car. So I was like, I was happy and I, he gave me this number and I, I used what I bypassed the OTP thing. So this was the first thing I done I use Freda to bypass it, then I, unless the traffic. So I was analyzing the traffic you could see the proud API Honda API. So this is the response. The response contains a generator OTP. So that is a vulnerability. That was, that's easy vulnerability by the way. So when you give the number, the OTP is, OTP is to be sent in the mobile, but here the OTP was reflected in the response. So it was very easy vulnerability. So this was very easy. I have what I did was like, I used 5613 OTP that's seen here. And I ended there. The next thing was the M pin. And since I used an emulator, it doesn't pop out the biometrics option. It asked me for the number. So there was an option for for God and when you give the for God and been option, it will ask for the phone number. And I gave the phone number. Like again, the OTP was leaking in the response. So I could use this to reset the empty and I gave a symbol or I gave a number like 12342 reset it. Then I could get into the car. So this is how this was very, this was pretty much simple exploit and I could hack into the car easily. So the next thing was like, I was like, wow, this is super cool. And I created some Python scripts. And I don't even need what complicated the Jenny motion stuff or a phone. I created some scripts and I gave the phone number and I could just click enter and I could start the car. I could unlock the boot and I could unlock the toss everything. It was really easy for me. And I was like, wow, super cool. Hi, from an abstract engineer. I moved to the site of the automotive industry, like kind of stuff. Nice. During this search, I could, I could understand many things that is going behind the car, how the car controls or sorry, how the app controls the car or how it communicates. It was a funny process, learning process. Then disclosure, I reported this bug to auto ISAC first. When I checked auto is like it was the Honda was listed in their partner partnership. So I reported to auto is that but I didn't get any response for today. So I contacted Honda in getting after contacting them. They, they call me and they call me and they asked me about the vulnerability or how I found the ability. I took a call, I scheduled a call with them and I demonstrated it and I basically I showed everything that I found and they were happy. They, they are, they thank me and the vulnerability was fixed within two or three hours, I guess. So, and I could, I should also speak about the disclosure process, you know, most of the automotive companies doesn't have a responsible disclosure process or in India. So that's the main problem, that's the main problem that is faced by security researchers here. So when we find the vulnerability, they don't know where to report it and how to report. So, but Honda team doesn't have a responsible disclosure program, but they, they were very cooperative, cooperative with me. They, they sat with me for hours to fix this vulnerability and now the car is totally safe. And thank you. This is a, I hope this was an interesting talk and if you, if you have any doubts or clarification, you can contact me. This is my tutor handed. Thank you so much.


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're going to talk about pink fire. So with zinch rolling around there's a lot of talk about, you know, pink fire. That's kind of a thing that they do. So we're going to play with fire in an alternate color scheme today and in doing so we'll talk about how you can make a lot of other colors fiery. You can apply many of these same lessons to do any kind of color fire you might want to. We're going to turn this big endless spell here, the eight-pointed star of chaos. We're going to turn all this fire into pink fire. So right now I just have it zenithal primed. You'll notice that I really went in hard with the white on the fire and that's the first thing I'll say. Anytime you're doing fire you want to make sure that the base priming of that fire is very white, white gray, warm white, something it doesn't really matter. Just some kind of pretty intense bright color. So if you only have a rattle can use a brighter color, if you're doing like a pink fire, something like that Wraith bone or whatever it is from GW, like that gray white would be good. But any kind of white or near white will work in the end. So what we're going to do is I'm just going to jump over to the airbrush booth real quick and I'm going to give the whole thing a coat of Daler Rowney FW ink specifically. This is process magenta. I'm not going to film that because it's just literally me spraying all this fire with pink. I don't think you all know how to base coat something. But I'm going to start from there because I want to get a nice even tone over the whole thing in this very thin pink color. You'll see what it looks like when we come back. So I have something to work from. So give me just a moment and we'll be right back and we're going to then dive into the actual painting. All right, we're back and you can see everything's turned pink. So nice little effect there. Easy peasy. Now we've got a nice base color down. You didn't worry about getting it over the metal parts or whatever because those will hit later and it's fine. Now when it comes to fire, of course, we have a sort of inverse of our normal highlighting. That is to say the deepest parts actually need to be the brightest and the highest parts need to be the darkest. And that's true both as you go forward into the fire and as you come up to the top of the fire. So after some coat of pink, by the way, if you don't have the magenta ink, you can just you know any kind of base coat of some kind of pink will get you in the right place doesn't really matter. So now I've got some paints here we're going to use some pale pink from Proacryl. But again, any very light pinky color will work. I've got some purple three from more colors, which is actually a very pink color, but a nice rich magenta. We've got some burnt red from Proacryl. Violet five from more colors and then Avedon Black from Games Workshop from Citadel. OK, and here I'm going to work on just a nice dry pallet so I can work quick because we're going to be basically doing this is going to be a little wet blending adventure. So I'm going to actually move my pallet over the other side of me here. So it's right there. We're going to start with just a little bit of that pale pink and I'm going to find deep spots around all the fire. Basically just somewhere where I can shove that down inside there. I want that to be kind of the the base of the flames. OK, so you can see how when we push that down in there immediately already it looks more fiery because we have that hot color down in there. Do the same thing over here on this side. I'm not worried about the little skulls. We'll come back and we'll handle them later. At the moment, we worry just about the fire. OK, great. Clean the brush and we're going to take a little bit of our color here and we're just going to kind of pull some of that up. Just kind of mix it with some of our that previous pale pink. Gives us a nice chance, I'm sorry, a frame with a little tippy top flames. Gives us a nice chance to just get some extra color down. Now we're going to take a little of that, mix it with some of the red. I can move this on screen so you can actually see what I'm doing. But it'll kind of get in the way, I suspect. You see how I mixed there. I'll pull it in and off so you can see it. So we get a nice mix between the two. And what I'm going to do is just start using the side of the brush. You notice I'm just hitting these top parts, working fast. Sorry, those little tippy flames are out of shot. In other words, I'm not really focused on I'm trying to. You can see how this is how I'm touching the brush at this angle. And the reason I'm bringing in a little bit of that burnt red is because, one, we still expect fire to have some. Redness to it, even when it's weird, magical pink flame. Let's get a little bit more of that. Kind of bring that in. I'm just going back and forth here. You notice I'm using a really big brush. That's intentional. By using this big brush, I can work over all this space really fast. I can hold a lot of paint in the belly of the brush. And you notice what a lot of what I'm doing is just smoothing out on the miniature itself. Push the red up a little more on that side. Okay. Then we're going to take a little bit of that burnt red. Back over here. A little bit of that burnt red. We're going to mix it with some of that purple. Get a nice, deep, dark color like that. Take just a touch of that pink, just to cool it off a tad. Okay. Now, up at basically just the tips of the fire. Don't worry, it's going to look ugly.  It's okay. It's just fine. This is just a fun part where we get to go nuts. Obviously, this is a whole lot of fire. You can do this with a lot less. This was a smaller miniature. It'd be certainly pretty easy to just, you know, work some little flamer of zinch or something. So we just kind of, you can see how we're getting that transition there. Okay. Now we're going to go for a little bit of that more straight purple. Still haven't put my brush in water. Make sure I'm getting around all the sides. Some of these angles are kind of wonky. Now we're going to take some of that purple, mix it with a little bit of that black.  And then we're just going to get the very tips of some of the big flames. So now we've got that nice little quick sketch of our colors established there. So I'm just going to repeat this around a little bit off camera. All I'm doing is going through and making sure like in these areas, I have a nice transition that I don't have any jumps that are too far, that kind of thing. Basically, we just want to make sure that we have all of our nice colors laid in here appropriately. So that's just a little bit of cleanup. When I come back, I'll show you how we then continue to refine this. I'm going to let all this dry because I just threw a lot of wet paint on this thing. So we'll be back in just a moment, but I'm just going to keep touching this, doing basically exactly what you saw here. Just making sure all the colors are transitioning up. And then I'll show you how we go from here. So back in just a moment. Alright, so we're back. You can see I just kind of went through and smoothed everything out a little bit. The other thing I did was I did a little dark outline of just a weak dark outline around all the skulls. They'll probably end up being sort of a white pink that stands apart in some way when I'm done. But it's hard to tell how light your lights are if you don't have a dark to judge them against. So if I had blackened this later, this would seem a lot brighter. You kind of need to understand your shadow and light concepts to really to really understand exactly where you got. So there you can go. You can see how it varies like here's a dark strand down here and it comes into this and so on and so forth. We don't want it to be completely uniform. Like one of the things I see people do with fire a lot is they'll be light, you know, brightest, slightly darker, slightly darker, slightly darker, slightly darker, darkest. And it'll just be uniformly moving up. You want there to be differences in there. So you can see how some of this red comes down farther. There's little, you know, trails down here that are darker. Some of the light pink goes up higher. You want a nice mix there. Now that being said, you might ask, well, Vince, why did you use a dry palette for this?  Well, that's a great question, imaginary person. I'm glad you asked. The answer is so that I would have them on a dry palette so we could do some dry brushing. So I'm going to use a nice soft round makeup brush, which is what I've got here. Always our best friend for dry brushing. We're going to go into just a little bit of that magenta color. So this is our purple three for more colors. It's got just a little bit of the actual purple mixed into it there. As always when dry brushing, we give a test on the back of our hand. That looks nice and soft. And then literally we're just going to come across the fire and we're just going to do some nice, smooth applications of the dry brushing. Of course, the key being it's going to hit just the high points when we do this. And that's exactly what we want. And this is just going to kind of help us to easily get those edges nice and picked out while leaving the lower parts still brighter. Then I'm going to go into a little bit of that purple color, that purple red, nice darker tone. Once again, let's test on the back of our hand. There we can see much darker tone. This time I'm going to focus mostly on the higher areas of the fire. Just again, quickly moving through a nice soft dry brush. Great way to blend honestly. Because it ends up being tiny, tiny applications repeatedly a very dark paint. Alright now, without cleaning the brush, we're going to go into a little bit of that black.  Okay, a little too much still. Now we're just going to get those tippy tips. If you had a smaller fire, you probably, you might not need to dry brush. You might be able to do this with just, you know, the blend alone depends on the size of the fire. Like this is a really big fire on this endless bell. So pulling out all the stops. Okay, so there you go. Now we've got this nice transitions going throughout. You can see the white to the pink there. Easy peasy. Rinse out our dry brush. Now, final steps. Nice and easy for your pink fire. Two potential options. First of all, you could certainly just stop here. Let me say that. Nothing wrong with that. Like that's a perfectly acceptable fire. But there's a couple more things we can do. If we want to keep going, first we go into that black. And we're just going to kind of very carefully. Now we're working with thin paints. Just going to pick some of those edges. And with that nice thin black, we're just going to pick a few of them out. Just to really make sure we're showing that transition up. So it gets nice and dark at the very tips. Just our tippy tips. So if I go over something else, it's not really the end of the world. That purple in there. So now we've got that great transition in there. And this is where I make a note about sort of fire in general.  So one of the things, another thing I often see people do with fire is make a whole bunch of it. I'm just going to keep refining while I'm talking here momentarily. Is they make a whole bunch of it. Really, really yellow. Fire isn't yellow. Fire is always orange. Now there can be bright spots, but I mean that's your mid-tone color. That doesn't mean you can't have yellow in there. It shouldn't be a cold sort of like these ice yellow type of colors I often see. It should be a very warm, orangey yellow. But you can have those in there. The key is the majority of the fire is pretty much this orange tone. It's a very singular sort of thing. However, what we're doing to create visual interest on the model is we're trying to take that mid-tone and stretch it out. So we're creating a very small, small, small refined area of white heat. Right down at the bottom. And again, just as I used, this was my white equivalent here. Which is this pale pink. There's no white in this mix, but you see how that still looks white partially from what I've primed it with and partially from just a bright color. It's still in the tone with the rest of the fire. And that's how you want to make sure you're sort of organizing it. Like, you want to have this really, really small area of high heat where that color is passing into basically white. You want a larger area of mostly your mid-tone. Now it can run from, you know, just as you see here, like a very light version of your mid-tone into a very dark version of your mid-tone. But it's still mostly that. So, you know, if this were to be a slightly different color fire, if it were to be green fire, the same thing. The majority of it should be that kind of green color. And then I'd have the yellow white down at the bottom where it's hot. You know, something like that. The same rules apply no matter what color the fire is. Okay? So now I'm just taking some of that original magenta pink and just kind of smoothing out, making sure I like all the touches, making sure I don't have anything hanging out. It's just a little bit too bright, still working off the same dry palette because we're just working fast. So, other things we can do here. Like I said, you certainly could have stopped already. So if you're still watching, hey, thanks, I appreciate that. That's very nice of you. I'm glad you're still here, welcome. But if you want to do some more fun stuff, there's a couple of other things we can do here. So let's talk about just two more final steps. The first is we can pop that pink way up with something like a fluorescent pink. So this is fluorescent pink for more colors. We're just going to get a little bit of that. You can grab any of your fluorescent colors. Plenty of different companies make fluorescent colors. I've done some reviews of it, so you can go check out the review of both this pink and the Vallejo FX fluorescence, both of which are nice. But we can take some of this and we can just kind of work it here into our mid-tone. Kind of above, it's going to be our next bright highlight color. So we're using that to capture the upper heat in the flame.  So it can just give us a nice little pop in there. We can only use it on some of our raised areas down here to sort of stand out against the white. Just seeing that space there. I want to darken that up a little bit. Okay. So, all right. The other thing we could do is we can bring this all back together in some way.  It doesn't really matter. Take a little bit of that Process Magenta or whatever you happen to use. Whatever your initial base color was. It doesn't matter. In this case, I'm using mine. If you don't have Process Magenta, don't worry. You don't need it. Not the end of the world. We're just going to take that and we're going to just run a thin controlled glaze of it over everything. We're not washing it because we don't want it to pool. So I'm making sure that my brush is just a nice thin glaze. All that excess liquid is wicked out and we're just giving it a nice simple coat of it to just kind of cover all that dry brushing, all that ugliness that happened there as we might have some brush strokes or stuff like that. This just kind of helps bring everything back together. You will note I am not covering the white or the pale pink as it were in this case at the bottom. Because I don't want to completely cover that part. But I am going up onto some of the darker color I did just to again add that tone back in. By having that it just helps us align all those tones. All these little pieces of flame are very annoying. So there we go. We've got our nice rich pink fire. The reason we go back in with that glaze at the end or with the fluorescent pink or anything like that is because we want to increase that intensity. A lot of what we're doing here is taking that pink and we're adding these other colors to it. This pale, this pale, you know, near white color. We're adding this sort of black and purple. All of that is just desaturating the fire and making it feel really, really weak. By adding back in these glazes of this really intense, heavily pigmented ink we can recreate a lot of that heat and intensity. So it still feels pink while still having the heat there that we would otherwise want, right? So that's the key. When you get that kind of intensity, you've got to really create it there in that space.  Like, all right, I'm good with that. But it's more comfortable with it.  We're just tricking the eye, tricking the brain a little bit. You don't see it, but your subconscious does. So there you go. That's pink fire. I'll throw a little picture of that up at the end. Once it's all done, obviously we'll do a little bit of OSL, just dry brushing out some pink to show this casting light, that kind of thing. But that's a hope that helps out with your recipe for pink fire and how you think about painting it. I think this looks like a really cool effect. Great for zee and trade for that kind of chaosy magic effect. If you enjoyed this, hey, give it a like. 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An important piece of history is that when I was at UBC during the start of the second year, a young lady came to join Ph.D. at UBC and they ended up putting her in the office with me. And she came and kind of wondered, who am I going to work with for my Ph.D.? She had done a master's at the University of California, Davis, started looking around different professors and she sort of asked me, well, who do you think I should do a Ph.D. with? I said, quite frankly, my opinion, the only person in this department worth doing a Ph.D. with is Keith Pirmacombe. I was five years old. She ended up doing a Ph.D. with Keith Pirmacombe. She ended up doing extremely well. She became then a faculty member at UBC and moved on to be vice president of research at UBC and moved on to be president of the University of Alberta. Her name is Indira Summersacara. So that's my claim to Ph.D. Excellent. Yeah, so we're still good personal friends.


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Okay, so what do you think about marriage? You just looked at one aspect of it. What are your thoughts now? Single people, married people? Just put it in the chat. Your honest opinion on marriage need to hear from you from what you've seen so far. What do you think? Okay, I'm waiting. We can ask the newlywed. Seems like you have to prepare a lot. Yeah, Jefina, it definitely, I think that's a good thing. Just knowing that one has to prepare and preparing. So it's not an impossible situation, right? See, we are looking at all the things together. So it might sound a little overwhelming. Oh wow, there's so much to it. But the fact is that there are areas, there are strengths as well. All of us have strengths, areas of strengths, areas where we are strong in and we can relate very well to the other person. But knowing that there are areas which need to be worked on. Just knowing that is the first step. And the second step is of course, working at it intentionally. So preparing for it is good. Okay, anyone else? Georgia, we can ask the newlywed Anita and John Paul. Subhashesh, what do you think from what we've studied so far? Okay, still collecting your thoughts? Okay, it's good. I think if you're thinking about it, well, that's a good thing as well. The danger is not thinking about it, right? So if you're thinking, okay, so this is what manages, it involves this. It's good to think about it. Okay, but never forget that the God is a designer of marriages. So he's a good God. He's the one who designed it. So his design is good. And well, there are other things, our own flesh, the nature of sin, what it is. And of course, we have the powers of darkness, Satan and his cohorts. All trying to pull down what God means to be a good thing. Or trying to distort what God means to be a good thing. Or what God meant to be a good thing. For a man and a woman. So never forget that. We have God's backing in this, right? Okay, so we looked at when we need to personally manage our lives. One of the things that we saw was our career itself. Okay, let me just share that and then we'll move on. Okay. Okay, so the first thing. So it's career and then we close by saying, you know, what about, you know, if there's a need for, well, their husband to be working elsewhere. You know, we have a typical situation where let's say the wife needs to work somewhere and the husband needs to work somewhere. And it's a long distance thing, you know, so is that good? You know, after all, you need money. It's important that you need, you know, finances. And so it's a good thing just for the sake of the family, for the sake of, you know, children, you know, is this kind of sacrifice okay? So the thing is this, you know, while we know that there are sometimes these situations can't be avoided, but, you know, as a church, as a ministry, what we always recommend for married people is that, well, maybe there are, you know, there are situations like this. So maybe you can take about three months, three to four months to work through this, right? Maybe the husband needs to be there, maybe the wife needs to be there. You know, in some cases, it's like the husband is working and then the wife needs to get a visa to join the husband or the other way, you know, a different country and all those things. So the thing is to work at it, you know, and not let that be a permanent thing, right? To work at the family being together, to work at the husband and the wife being together. So whatever time frame, you know, maybe it's three months ideal, okay? You work at it and then say, okay, in three months, you know, but sometimes we know that it goes beyond that. But then also to suggest that there's what we, you know, as a church, as a ministry, recommend very strongly that the husband and wife should not be separated because of work, because of career, because the primary thing, you know, for them, the marriage should be given priority, right, for the family to be together, because when, because of physical distance, you can say today, you know, we are connected, we have social media, but because of physical distance, a lot of other things happen, you know, maybe it's the breeding ground for, you know, pre-marital, I mean, extramarital affairs and all those things, emotional dependence on another person, you know, all that happens because of this. So when, you know, this is what we highly recommend. Okay, what is the other thing when it comes to management of oneself? Okay, it's important how one handles finances, okay, money. Are they able to, first of all, earn, save, invest? Are they able to live within the means, or is it like, you know, end of the month, everybody? You end up, you know, end up borrowing, etc.  Well, God gave me this trend to, you know, to earn this or he brought it into our lives, but, you know, this is ours, so we plan it, we pray, we plan, we decide and we spend it, right? So, to have that kind of a mentality. Okay, another very overlooked resource is time, right? So, time, as individuals, are we able to manage our time well?  To be skilled at that, to make sure that you have a schedule, to make sure that you're able to, you know, maintain your spiritual life, to be able to give priority, to be able to give priority and prioritize, you know, time in church, time in the word, prioritize time for the work or study, right? For the family, so all those things, you know, as an individual, as a single person, you know, to be strong in that, because when you are married, when there's another person and they have their own schedule, so you need to be strong in managing your time to be able to plan and spend, you know, time together, right? So, time we see is an important resource, so to be able to do well, planning, goal-sectoring, one very important aspect of time is punctuality, right? Am I always late? Do I find that as a challenge? Do I find it a challenge to, you know, get up in the morning? Do I find it a challenge to discipline myself to go to bed at the right time so that I can have enough rest to be able to get up in the morning? You know, all these things come related to time, right? So, time management, a very important thing. Then the other thing is the household skill. These are, again, some things which are overlooked. You know, when it comes to running a family, running a household, there are bills to be paid. And these bills need to be paid on time because if these bills are not paid, then normally there is a fine that is attached to it or a discontinuing of the services.  If you don't pay your internet or your phone connection that is taken away, and these greatly inconvenience us, right? Or if you don't order whatever fuel you are using for cooking, maybe it's a gas or stove or gas cylinder or, you know, in whatever way, maybe gas is piped in whatever, you know, there is a cutting away of those services, a stopping of those services, which again put a lot of stress in, you know, and its inconvenience is not only you but also the rest of the family, you and your spouse, so you need to be able to do that, right? So paying bills, well, keeping the place clean, you know, maybe we didn't even think about it, right?  Every time you need to search for a thing, it's like, I mean, every time you need to find something, you spend about 15-20 minutes searching, right? Because you've just thrown it, well, the thing is this, you know, being able to keep things clean, keep things organized, because there's going to be another person living with you, right?  We never had to go and buy the grocery because there was someone else to do it all the time. So the minute I moved out of my house for work, that's when I realized, I didn't know much, right? How much, normally how much does a, you know, a kilo of onions cost or tomatoes or potatoes? I was clueless, so I had to learn, you know, how do you, how do you even choose an onion, you know? Okay, which is a good, which is a good one, which is not, I didn't know. So I had to, you know, it was a learning for me when I moved out of the house. So these are some things that we might take for granted, but it's good to know these things, right? So personal management, again, household skills also come into a very important factor. Then, okay, I'm just checking if there are any questions, any comments, okay, none. Right, so then the other thing is relationship skills. Okay, so what do we mean by that when we say relationship skills? Okay, you know, when we look at Philippians chapter 2 verses 3 and 5, we see that Paul is instructing and its, his instructions are when it comes to people doing life together or it's, you know, maybe it's in the, it's a church scenario, maybe it's a house from a family kind of, or work professional kind of a sitting, but you know, just read through this. Chapter 2 verse 3, don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast. This is the message, this is a good news version. But be humble towards one another, always considering others better than yourselves, and look out for one another's interest, not just for your own. This attitude, the attitude you should have is the one which that Christ Jesus had. Okay, so to, in order to establish a good healthy relationship in marriage with our spouse, so there needs to be, you know, this, when it comes to our attitude, when it comes to our communication, right? We need to have some skills. Maybe we, maybe we are, you know, we do not talk to the other person at all. No, we just, maybe just keep to ourselves. Well, marriage involves communication, marriage involves speaking to the other person, marriage involves, you know, this whole thing of trust, how does it build? How the whole thing of transparency or intimacy, how does it happen? When we start by communicating, right, when we begin to share, when we begin to share things about our lives, our life, who we are, our likes, our dislikes, everything about ourselves when we share with the other person.  So, I mean, communication is a very important thing. It's crucial in marriage, you know, because sometimes people say, okay, I'm living in the same house. We're under the same roof, but there's no communication, right? There's no communication at all. It's just a very transactional interaction, okay? Okay, this needs to be bought. Fine, we'll buy it. Did you buy this? Did you get this? You know, are we going here? Are you ready? Shall we go? It's just that very transactional interaction, okay? And communication is broken down. You're not sharing about feelings. You're not sharing about fears.  Maybe something happened along the journey and everything is shut down.  And so you need to consider, okay, hey, I need to get over this fear. I need to get over this inhibition and I need to be able to communicate, okay, share, talk to the other person, okay? So, the next one, roles in marriage, okay? I need to be prepared, which means I need to understand what is the role of a husband, what is the role of the wife. You know, we're going to look at, there's a chapter on this. So, understand, okay, as the husband, as the wife, you know, what are my roles? Is it providing for the home, spiritual growth of everybody in the house? Okay, for running of the home, the, you know, effective, let's say, operation of everything that's happening, right? There are some skills and it comes under, you know, typically a relationship skill. Am I, you know, am I a good team leader? Am I a good team player, right? Do I, do we support each other? All these things, right? So, we need to consider this, you know, for, I just want to share here that, you know, I worked initially with an organization, which was a sales, you know, my role in that organization was in the area of sales. It was a salesperson. So, which means that every day I had to meet a lot of people, a lot of clients, talk about the product, talk about the company, you know, and offer the goods and services and all that, right? And make a sale, come back. So, this was it. So, by the time I came back, this was the early days of marriage, right? So, my wife was not working then. So, she was at home. So, by the time I came back, she was all, you know, excited to see me and she wanted to, you know, hear from me about my days, you know, how my day was and she wanted to speak, you know, tell me how her day was. And I was not ready, you know, I was just not ready at all. I was not ready at all to talk to her because emotionally, I just didn't have the strength, right? Physically, emotionally, I was just drained. I was like, just leave me alone. You know, don't even talk to me. I don't, you know, I don't even have the ability to listen. So, that was a tough thing. You know, I had to get over that.  So, it was like, I could do whatever I want, right? I could just, I could just decide, okay, guys, you know, I'm just going, I'm just shutting out the world. You know, I'm just going to be myself. Well, now I'm married. So, I need to be able to handle that well. I'm just getting to know my wife. And so, I need to be able to communicate that, communicate what my wants are, what my desires are, and what my problems are, what my difficulty was, right? To be able to communicate that despite the way I was feeling and say, okay, you know, I just need to rest for some time. It's not that I have anything against you or anything. Just to be able to do that, right? So, it's very important, okay? So, I'm just talking about, you know, skip back to communication. Rules again, right? Rules and marriage, you know, what are some things that you can do? What are some things that I can do? And readily taking up certain responsibilities, okay? I'm good at this. So, let me do this. Let me handle this at home. You have these things need to be clean. Well, let me do that. Some things need to be cooked. Okay, I don't have no expertise in this area. So, you know, can you handle that? Right? So, an understanding of that.  So, it doesn't happen automatically. Many times we think that, oh, that person should understand. That person should know how I feel. Well, it doesn't happen that way. Right? It's fantastic, you know, and that happens intuitively. You think and maybe you care and you do that. It doesn't happen all the time, right? You need to share and you need to, well, communicate with the person and share that, right? Okay. So, we looked at roles in relationship, roles in marriage, and also, you know, our interactions and our relationship with our in-laws. Okay, which means, you know, my wife's parents and, you know, the relationship that my wife has with my parents, right? What the interactions that I have with my wife's parents and so on, so in-laws. Now, again, we need to consider that, hey, these are folks whom we should treat with honor and respect. And they are my spouse's parents, elders, and, you know, they have taken care of my spouse.  Therefore, you know, and what God is very clear that we need to honor our parents. And so, she should honor her parents and I should honor mine as well and I should honor, we should honor each other's parents, respect each other's parents, right? So, while we do that, also, the thing is to clearly define, we saw marriages for two people only and then if there is a third person or if there is a group, you know, in that circle, then it's going to put a lot of stress. So, you know, with regard to in-laws, clearly defined, you know, boundaries, okay, hey, yeah, thank you for the advice, you know, about how we should spend our holidays, but we will decide that, right? Thank you for the advice. Thank you for everything that you're sharing and what we'll decide that, you know. Thank you for the offer that you want to, you know, buy this for the house or, you know, this particular color furniture, but, you know, please, I thank you, but, you know, we have other plans. You know, we don't want that right now. We let you know. You know, things like that, right? So, in an honorable manner and not really snapping at them, you know, not putting them down, but in an honorable manner to say that, well, now, as husband and wife, we have decided and this is what it is and so to have that. So, to be able to have that, one needs to trust one another, right? And I remember a piece of advice that the person who actually, you know, took us through pre-marital counseling shared this pastor. So he shared something very important. He said, you know, he looked at me and he said, you know, you need to, my wife's father passed away when she was in college. So it was her mother looking after her and, you know, all that. So this pastor looked at me and he said, you know, you need to make sure that you do the best for, you know, her mother. You make sure that you do the best. You have her best in mind, you do the best for her, no matter what, right? In all your conversations and everything, don't put her down. You have the best for her, right? Maybe there are things that she needs, you take care of those needs. And, well, he did the same thing for my wife as well. And he looked at her and he said, you know, your husband's husband to be, you know, his parents, you do the best for them, honor them, you do the best for them, treat them with respect and make sure that you don't put them down or, you know. So this was very valuable advice because when we decided to do that, when we told each other, okay, this is what we're going to do. I made up my mind and said, okay, now it's a difficult thing.   And so also my wife, she said, I'm going to honor, I'm going to respect them, irrespective of how they are going to communicate and how they are going to behave. So we're going to respect. So when each of us had confidence that, you know, I mean, I have the confidence that my wife is not going to disrespect my parents. And my wife is going to always, you know, think the best of them and do the best for them. And when she, my wife had the confidence that, okay, my husband is going to do the best for my mother.  So there was no insecurity in that area. So when it came to defining the boundaries, it was so easy to say that, hey, this is what we have decided. This is how we are going to spend time. You know, to top it all, you know, I don't know if this might, you know, as for Indian families, it might make, you know, it might be able to understand it a little better, I think. I'm not sure. So Georgia and Lubeca and the others are just sharing this. So the thing is, you know, both our parents, like her mother and my parents, we lived in the same hometown. You know, they lived in the same hometown at that time. So whenever we came home for, you know, our Christmas holidays, vacation, whatever vacation, there was a lot of pressure in the sense, hey, Christmas lunch, Christmas dinner, which family do we choose? Is it husband's family? Is it wife's family? But we all, you know, normally Christmas dinner is always with the husband's family, you know, all those kind of things. So initially it was tough. You know, whenever we visited our hometown, maybe it was just for a couple of days and, you know, spending time dividing the time between the families and all that, it was really tough.  And so it was easy for us to decide, okay, hey, let's go here for lunch. Let's go here for dinner. Let's spend this time here. Mornings, let's spend here. Second half, let's spend here. Let's stay the night here. It was easy, right? But if that confidence is not there, then it's going to be tough. And the in-laws, relationship with in-laws were very, very uncomfortable, very, very, I would say even bitter, like a lot of fights and a lot of things.  We do, you know, have our disagreements, but really it's a very friendly, you know, relationship and I can say, and so also, you know, I've seen my wife interact with my parents and now my father's no more and my herd interactions with my mother and, you know, very friendly and even, you know, she speaks to her more than I would speak to her. So, you know, it's that level. So I praise God, thank God for that, for that advice. And when we went through our pre-marital time, which really helped us through these years. Yeah, so almost two decades and more. So it's really helped us through these years, right? Okay, so preparing relationally in all these areas is very important.   Sometimes it's not because maybe there's a parent who's unable to take care of himself or herself and there's no one else except, you know, except maybe you and your married and of course, your parent needs to live with you or you need to live there. So in such cases, well, how, again, how clearly would you define those boundaries, about time spent, et cetera? It is a challenge, right? It's a challenging thing, but it has to be, again, these boundaries have to be well-defined, understood by both the husband and the wife so that there are, you know, there are no, I won't say there are no conflicts, but, you know, you know that, you know, what the expectations are and, you know, how to resolve these kind of conflicts. Okay, then the other thing. Okay, we looked at four areas. Let's just move on. Any questions here so far? Any questions? Anything that you might want to add? Or maybe you're from, you know, a different culture, different, you know, completely different ethnic background so you have a different culture. So you can feel free to share that as well. And I think it'll be good. If there's anything, please go ahead. Nothing at all? I don't see anything on the chat. Right. Let's move on. Okay, so in this whole thing of preparation, we're just going to look at, you know, three more things before we close. One is the whole aspect of overcoming the past. Okay, whether it's, yeah. John Paul is soaking in. Okay. Thanks, John. Praise God. Yeah. Okay, overcoming the past.  Now the thing is, you know, we know that stuff happens, right? Even in the most protected of environments, there could be something that's happened, maybe some abuse, physical abuse. Maybe there's an emotional abuse that has happened and because of which we are broken.  Maybe just one instance and maybe it was a repeated thing, you know, whatever it is. The fact is that emotionally, maybe the person is broken. Maybe emotionally the person has a lot of scars and maybe that was not shared at all. You know, it's so secretive, so shameful. You know, you think it's very shameful. You think that you're the only person to whom it has happened. So you've not got reached out, received help. You're not even spoken about it to another person. Now here comes, you know, the person to whom you're going to be married to and this thing seems to be like a wall, right? You're not able to be, you're not able to emotionally relate, like be close to that person because you've been hurt by another man or you've been hurt by another woman, right? So it's something of the past, right? A trauma of the past, a negative experience of the past and abuse of the past, right? Sometimes abuse happens in the family and it could be an abuse of father and an abuse of mother, whatever it is, right? Now, what do we do? You know, we're taking that into the family, into the marriage. Do you want to take it into the marriage? The answer is no. Have you taken it already into the marriage? Well, the thing is, it has to be dealt with. It has to be sorted because you don't want the marriage to suffer, right?  I can't seem to do anything about it. I don't know where to get help, right? The thing is, it needs to be dealt with. Look at Isaiah 43 and verse 18. We'll just look at both the versions. Maybe we'll look at New King James first. Isaiah 43 and verse 18. The Lord says, do not remember the former things nor consider the things of old. You might say, Lord, it's so easy to say but so difficult. Verse 19, behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and reverse in the desert. If you look at the message version, it says, but the Lord says, do not cling to the events of the past or dwell on what happened long ago. Verse 19, watch for the new thing that I'm going to do. It is happening already. You can see it now. I'll make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there. The Lord's instruction in verse 18 is, do not cling to the things of the past. Forget those things of the past. Do not remember the former things. That's one instruction. Obviously, we need the Lord's leading guidance, empowering to forget. Because our mind has been designed to remember. And now we need to forget. That means that even though we do remember those events, it can't be erased completely, but they don't trouble us anymore. In the sense, the pain is not there anymore. We see it and we just remember the healing that God has brought about. We remember the strength that God has brought about and the restoration that God has brought about when we think of those events and we think of those traumatic events. The Lord says, do not cling to it. Second one is, the Lord is going to do a new thing and what is it? He's going to prepare a way out and it's right through that wilderness, right through that difficult environment, but he's preparing a way. And it's a road. It's a road through the wilderness. It's a way out and it's a new thing. And the Lord is saying, this is what I'm going to do right in the midst of that environment. I'm going to prepare a way out and you're going to walk on it and come out of it and you will see those things like what you did not even expect. Streams of water there, some refreshing in that hard and harsh environment. Lord's promise. So the thing is that if we have gone through that kind of unfortunate event of the past and we have questions, we have hurts, we have bitterness, the thing is the Lord is promising that he will take us out. He'll bring us to a place of healing and wholeness. So what do we do? We don't stay there. We don't dwell on the past. But we take the Lord's hand and even as we walk, we walk through that pathway that he has prepared and we come out. We journey to healing. It's a journey that we make. It's a journey of healing and we come out whole. We come out strong. So it could be abuse. So we need to make sure that intensely we come out of it. We come to a place of just unburdening ourselves onto the Lord and saying, God, I just went through this and maybe the best thing to do is to maybe attend a session with a Christian counselor, someone who is trained, someone who is gifted, someone who is anointed in that area and say, I need help. A lot of counseling is available online. APC itself has a counseling ministry. So could do some of these sessions and then come to a place of healing. So not stay in that place. Second thing could be, let me just add up. It could be addictions, substance abuse, addictions to substances. It could be addiction, addictive behaviors, addictive lifestyles, gambling, compulsive behaviors, and so on. So these things also, we need to deal with it. And not say, not think that, okay, I'm addicted to smoking, I'm addicted to alcohol. I'll be fine. Once I get married, I'll be fine. No, you won't be fine. In fact, it's going to be, it'll get activated. Maybe there were negative home environments and experiences where we were in an abusive household, where our parents were not the best of examples. It just happens. We didn't get to choose our parents. So unfortunately, maybe they knew the Lord, they did not know the Lord. One knew the other one did not or whatever, whatever be the circumstance. Maybe they were not the best of examples. Maybe there was abuse in the family. Maybe we saw our parents fighting. We saw domestic violence. Maybe there was unfaithfulness, infidelity in the family. Maybe there was abandonment. All that, what we have seen, sometimes we learn those behaviors. I remember, it was quite recently, I got upset about something and the way I spoke, my wife said, you sound just like uncle, you sound just like your dad. My dad was upset. He would use a certain tone and she said, you sound just like your dad. I wasn't proud of it because it was a negative thing that she was saying. And the fact that I had absorbed some of those things. But the thing is, we learn these things. As children growing up in that environment, we picked these up. These are caught. We didn't even realize it. We picked these up. It became part of our lives. And when we face certain scenario, it just comes out. Where did it come from? I don't know, it's there. An undrenewed part of my mind. It was there, hidden all along and then just pops out. It was there. In my Atomos, you desire truth in the Atomos part of my being. So you know, you can ask the Lord, search light of your truth, God. It is shining in me and wherever there needs to be changed, God, you change it. There needs to be strength to change it, God. And yes, these areas we need to, definitely it needs to think about. So maybe it was growing up in the home. It was not the easiest, but you can make a change. You can renounce those things and then make a fresh start. And also, when it comes to when it comes to the past, we looked at it, renouncing the past. Maybe there were relationships in the past. Maybe not just one, but multiple relationships. Maybe emotional relationships. Maybe physical relationships. Now, how do you deal with it? So the preparation time actually is very important. Especially for especially if it's done with counselor who walks everyone through this and we need to understand that or ask ourselves the question, have I truly cut away those ties? Do I still keep in touch? Emotionally, am I still attached? Right? Have I renounced contact? Or am I still carrying some of these things and do I still think or do I still desire? Do I still am I still in touch with such people of the past in my life? So maybe a past relationship like a boyfriend, girlfriend or maybe it was a serious relationship emotionally, physically and then for some reason there was a break up, but then in some form or the other you're still maintaining contact and all that needs to be cut away completely. Because marriage is for two and two people alone. There needs to be repentance, there needs to be renouncing of all that completely surgically in fact and so that you can move forward in your marriage. So married people we need to be careful are we harboring any such even emotional relationships maybe at present in our interactions maybe it could be it could be at our office maybe where you work maybe a place of business even church ministry you need to be careful so we need to cut away put away so that it doesn't affect the health of our marriage okay then last two things is purity when you say purity we're talking about physical intimacy is sexual purity breaking free of all sexual addictions breaking free of all anything that is sexual perversions breaking free of it pornography or masturbation and all that breaking completely free because we see that verse that I just put up on a marriage in God the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex so we see that God is serious and God has designed marriage in such a way that the physical aspect of it is within marriage is not outside of marriage so we look at that and then sexual intimacy it's not outside of marriage but it's in marriage only the Bible is very clear that God is a designer of he's one of the design marriage which means the physical part of marriage aspect of marriage which is sex he designed it but he decided in such a way that the bonds of marriage is in the confines of marriage so it is not outside of marriage it's not premarital or it's not extramarital but it's within marriage itself okay so what about other things like whether it's pregnancy childbirth infertility we need to be prepared for when it comes to children, when it comes to when are you going to have children or if there is a challenge in that area how are you going to address that will you believe God have faith in God for a miraculous intervention or are you going to think of any other methods so talking about all that is very important and not just leaving it, not just brushing it aside these are real things and these are real challenges as well we are going to look at this the physical aspect of marriage a little later okay one last thing christian maturity calling in ministry let me quickly go through this when it comes to spiritual growth do you take responsibility for your own spiritual growth and will you as a spouse contribute to the spiritual growth of your spouse of your companion will you help in any way and how can you do that without controlling, how can you do that without interfering in the spiritual growth being an encouragement husband is the spiritual head of the house so are you taking that place of leadership and how will you steward that so preparing for that maybe you never thought of it that way you never thought that you will be the priest of the house so you think of that and maybe you are saying I will just leave that all to my wife let her take care of it or the wife is saying okay what we need to do with this so we need to understand what is the Lord calling us to how is the Lord calling us to steward spiritual growth in the family when there are children and also when it comes to calling when it comes to the Gods call for us individually and as a couple how are we stewarding that okay we will pick it up in our next class and then we will continue okay so we will stop here and take a break and thank you we will come back for our biblical preaching class God bless see you guys


So this is called Negro Geist, one daddy. Old Crow and Jack Daniels understood my father mouthfuls at a time. Jim Bean and Old Forester were uncles in hard glass suits. They'd rolled up in the knuckle crack and sigh of Hennessy taking its first breath then hound dog laughter and dominoes falling in hail on the graveyard of the dining room table. Relatives who existed only through stories and memory with ease in like zombies on ropes of blue Marlboro and Newport and camel smoke then demand a seance and spades, Coon Can and Texas hold them. No wonder they called it spirits. Spirits baited my father with cuvasier snatching him out of his body like a river catfish and he'd vanish like that. Spirits made him burn rubber scream in the driveway, stand on my bed a sloppy marionette and speak in tongue or just toss pans and skillets at midnight.  My cousin Johnny volunteered for possession every week. Spirits lit that nigga up like Vesuvius. He was certified. Electroshock exorcisms did nothing. Empty bottles and cans were his weekend storm warning. Old English coat 45, crazy horse Cisco. They demand sacrifices in blood so bottles of howl doll and thorazine would dice roll under the couch. Friday nights then doors slam to splinters. Tables get flipped. Walls kicked until straight jackets lay waiting on the lawn. Mama would cite visions of gang boys with tire iron erections and Johnny's convertible skull with its metal vent as if it explained anything. It didn't.  You want some of this? Do you want some of this?  I'll be damned, I'll be damned, I'll be damned. All right. And for my mother, this is called the fire in her eyes redefines an apple written or inspired really by helping my mom do canning one summer. And while I was studying or figuring out what poetry was, I felt like I stared into her boiling pot of fruit and understood something. This is what I understood. The ritual of fruit begins again in June when buckets of smiling plums and blistered peaches arrive for her in cars, altering our kitchen into a steaming workshop. Soon blackened pots boil with our life's winter blood. She quickly buries the dead in a cemetery of sugar where apricots and pears a way to be baptized and born again as jam and jelly. Late summer brings chopped cabbages, cucumbers, and ancient spices all bathed in a sauna of hot vinegar and crushed red peppers. The walls of our kitchen come alive with the sweat of our ancestors who live again through recipes. The dead continue to feed the living with greasy fingers, stuffing our mouths with history's sweet cuisine. Mama leads us to her garden and motions over a field of greens, their vibrant tongues lapping sunlight like thirsty dogs. She tells us this is a lost art and warns that our wives will be useless to our children. Weeping, she presents the bouquet of her hands fragrant with 40 years of stewed tomatoes, summer squash, sweet corn, and candied yams. She forecasts her death and instructs us to sprinkle her body with salt until her skin appears wild with dandelions. Place her in our biggest pot and simmer to a low gravy. Seal her in a glass jar tomb. Store her in a cool, dry place and wait until the fog of poverty settles in the valley of our ignorance when there is only rainwater, credited bread, and the memory of meat. The next poem, which is the last one I'm going to read from my new book released by Nomadic Press called Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory, is this poem is called Before My Friend's Reception, I Stand Facing the Ocean. And the two oceans referenced here, I was fortunate enough to go to India. And I spent some time in the Indian Ocean, in Goa. And that week, like four days later, I basically had flown back here to San Francisco and was waiting for this wedding to take place. And I was staring at the ocean at Ocean Beach and suddenly realized, wow, this is the first time in my life I've encountered two different oceans, so close together and hot damn, waiting for this wedding to start. Here you go. It is my second ocean this week. This one's waves gnashing its teeth in a grimace between laughing and chewing. The sky burdened and exasperated by fog. I am that fog. And I attend this wedding detached as a ghost. Beneath these waves churned the surface of my first ocean, bath water warm beneath a blushing sky. There the waves were littered with people like flotsam after a storm. The ocean would eat the naked alive. Just now a dog runs the length of beach like a jet nearing takeoff, his hind legs flaring red in joy. Somewhere people spill from the mouth of a church beneath a steady hail of rice. Somewhere people laugh in the presence of roses and the foamy ejaculate of champagne. Somewhere in the space between that previous ocean and this, someone floats forgotten and drowns. Blankets have been folded and sand is spanked off flat soles while someone bobbles. Their arms like antennas on a channel, no God is surfing. Their mouths engorged with starfish, new tongues stuttering death's forbidden name. If I could, I'd swim out and save them myself, but the drowning swimmer is me. No, this is not a dream. In the flipside ocean, I stand with green water belted at my waist, afraid to be swept off my feet. I scoop up the loose nuts and bolts of seashells rolling beneath my toes when the waves are inhaled away from the beach and the water level bows. Here I stand, weeping fog and seafoam, humbling myself to learn from a dog. He snatches the steaming meat, pumping in my chest and runs for the mountains, a pile of discarded jackets before looking back longingly to ask, do you get it?  The bottle floats along the embryonic ocean like a jewel slipped loose. You know, I was once thought to have been extinct and scientists were disappointed to find me alive. I was discovered using an abacus of sand dollars counting the inventory of waves. I'm going to lie down on this cold brown sugar sand and await the dog's return lap. With my luck, I'll be found having drowned on nothing. There will be traces of two oceans in my system, my eyes dripping saline rivulets in different flavors. But first, the wedding. All right. And I'm going to sneak in poems that are not in the book that I wish were because I really am fond of these. This piece is called, Ode to a Desiccated Olive.   Beneath your crown of leaves, a pubescent froth curls and naps with an acrid cologne of wood smoke. Left to simmer above time's distracted watch, you dimple an age into an amber compass pointing like a nipple to the tongue's north star. I caress the grandmothered cheloid of your consecrated surface so that you may come to Jesus on my altar of breath. Remind this tongue how once an engorged earlobe was combination lock opening a soprano's scale of moans. Unfold your map of flavors from vine to the secular intersection of oil and bread. Medicinal and mythical, you are a clairvoyant paragraph punctuated with blossoms of aspirin and eyelashes. If you take the place of my heart, let my veins be the roots of the tree that brought you here. This is like asking the rain in your lover's hair to fall back through the sky. And that's what you get as an artist, staring at old fruit. And if you have studied art, then I dedicate this piece to you because this poem was written and inspired by the painting by Renee Magritte, the piece called The Lovers or Duo. And if you don't know those pieces, just quickly it's an image of two lovers kissing and each has a blank cloth or towel around their faces. So my poem is called Love is Easier the Headless Way. Love is easier the headless way. What good is desire in a world where there is only a thriving darkness? Your mouth is a gate opening to any place away from here. The crumbling mansion of my nothing heart. With this form-fitting cloth, I do wed. Let us spill into one another like waves of agitated milk, placing our thoughts elsewhere onto unavailable others while our useless arms disappear into what frames us. Bench, bed, brothel of the mind. Everywhere we turn, winter remains unfinished.  What are we willing to emotionally barter for when all we have is the simple meat of ourselves? And who can say what color the world was before the Earth's canvas began flowering paint? I have this recurring dream where we live nameless as mushrooms in the shadow of primeval birds. Birds who eluded ornthologists and didn't want the press, but who agreed to soar forever without landing and seed the Earth with minerals of light. I awake usually in a choking grief, how we've agreed to love one another without ever opening our eyes. Without ever opening our eyes to the truth. All right? And I am closing then with this poem, which is one of the first and main poems I thought about reading tonight on Valentine's night because it's a poem about loneliness. And yeah, yeah, I guess you'll understand that anyway. And also it kind of echoes what the other two features were had talked about in some of their poems, especially in space and some other things. So I feel like it's appropriate. This poem is called Martian. After terraforming your night's skin into a constellation of succulents, what else is worth exploring? Tongue sensors scan new geophysical language, ultraviolet fingers in orbit spinning, rockets propelling sticky dream nipples through a necklace of star clusters. Your black gibbous moons indecisive waxing, waning, to and fro, sleep chanting canticles of milk behind a firewall of gene fabric. Chocolate meteorites of magnetite and silica, their solar nutmeg, fusion, their viscous humidity, their orbital launch and vapor trail spreading nets of munitions across radiant fields of sweet hair and bedspreads like any man at war. Your pulsar fountains sparkling applause and comments. Every asteroid impact crater blasting open, a seed head of color. I succumb to zero gravity, my pressure modules splintering, hurtling from heaven. I am touch illiterate. I search for words in my own mouth, my sweet and sour lunar crater, despite its post-apocalyptic emptiness. What word best describes an appetite for exploration of the unknown? Don't say desire. Longing is a pornographic surname in certain galaxies. So how to read a map of black holes? How to guess the temperature of your nearest astronaut? Have you touched an alien life form today? You got me about to come is how I begin all my missions. You got me curious about what's out there and what flavor it assumes. I could live on your tang extract for eight days and name each molecule uniquely. After jazz singers, insect species, Jupiter's moons, my mouth could revive you, tongue your keyboard of nerves, a soft valley of new life forms to restring your upright spinal base, psychedelic flowers to cultivate, weeping yeast for bread to bake, your eyelashes and lips bruise me from inside out. Find me sticky and fibrous, a moldy peach shattered by the kitchen floor. I am stone, I am mop, I am swarm of sugar, sugar water, a bee shopping the spires of the giant blue high-sob lactating sugar. Do you know the origin for the word testimony? Back then, words were valued that much. What makes it really strange is how its legend is easy to believe, a row of soldiers willing to exchange their balls if their words fall impotent.   I only know that Adam's first prayer was, it's not you, it's me. Was God surprised by Adam as appetizer, his saintly rivulets of butter, his crunchy mass of breath, dust and carnal itch? He named each animal, but there's never been a proper name for free-range loneliness migrating head to toe. And what did Adam eat? After naming each animal, did he lick it? Check its seasoning? Who will feed us if we can't name what we want on a plate?  I'll need tabs of Viagra and an extension cord, I stage whispered. Me, a quasar, light years from rapture, sitting in a spaceship as if awaiting to be accepted by an alien official. I had no Voyager disks to DJ or heartbeats to sample. Just this astronomers pubic canopy, it's rainforest of fresh and fruity antibiotics. Use me to keep warm like how you once used a campfire. You'll need dry, fine, tender and friction spinning and grinding to work the flame up the ladder until embers awaken and their bright red eyes and weep smoke. There's been weeping, but no one has touched me and triggered fire. No touch at all except to shove my shoulder as they shower past blind. If I remain in people's way, I should be touched again. Even if touch rhymes with choke or punch or shove, it's still touch. I see sex as a kind of conversation with various sticking points.  How might you describe your first love?  The sun was first described as an erupting volcano falling from the sky, magmatic, hot to see, inflamed, brilliant, cast gold luminous and swelling upon its approach, darkness parting in star crested waves. The sun itself described the flavor of darkness how one might explain skin first tasted, skin not your own, foreign and savory. It's seasoned cells, sweating, oyster water, swallowed flames reheat the body's forgotten science and wasted fertility. Now close the cargo doors of the shuttle. My engine begins firing and the orbit burn. Such complex algebra just to land in welcoming arms.  It is me made glossy with newness and unanswerable questions. My life untouched, unloved, undercover, no alive and throbbing and alone. Thank you so, so very much.


President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. President and Mrs. Reagan, I would like to take this moment to express on behalf of all here present our great joy to have the honor of your presence. Today be a mother's day throughout the nation. Every family is united and shown the love and appreciation for one whose place no one could take. To think that you have chosen our home, the John Jurgen residence here in Washington, D.C., to pay this tribute is a great privilege, especially for our mothers who are gathered here today. Not only the mothers of our home, but the mothers throughout the whole world have received this honor. Since we, the little sisters of the poor, are an international congregation, and we have 260 homes all over the world. 33 of these homes are in our own United States, from north to south, from east to west. And since our sole work is the care of the elderly, this makes us one with them. I would like to take this occasion, this opportunity to ask God's blessing on our Mr. President that he will give you the strength, the courage, and the wisdom to be able to carry on the heavy responsibility that is yours as the President of the United States. Once again, Mr. President and Mrs. Reagan, in the name of all our little sisters, our residents, our benefactors, our friends, our volunteers, and our devoted employees, I would like to say thank you for joining us today for giving us this privilege that is so special to each one of us. Now I would like to present Pauline Tyre who has something special for Mrs. Reagan. Pauline, if she doesn't mind us mentioning she's 94 years old, Mr. President. We do have a few other tokens that we'd like to present to you also, Mr. President. This is a little centerpiece that was made by our residents. By our residents, yes. Mr. President, this is a very special picture in the life of every little sister of the poor. It depicts our mother foundress that was taken for the beatification just two years ago when our mother foundress was beatified. That depicts our elderly and all the work that we do in caring for the elderly. Mr. President, so you will really know us, be able to enjoy our life. We have the book of our mother foundress. Blessed John, you're gone. Humble so as to love more. Mr. President, would you say a few words to us? I'd be very happy to. Thank you. Mother Mary Agnes, thank you for inviting us here today. Since the little sisters of the poor was found in 1839, the order has spread to 34 countries on five continents and cared for more than a million of the elderly and today of my generation. And here in Washington, although this home is only a year old, it replaced one that was operated by the little sisters of the poor for more than a century. And throughout all these decades, you've cared for the elderly in our capital city who had nowhere else to go and you've brought them into a warm and happy home and you've given them in addition to the necessities the thing that only the love of others can bestow dignity. I know that for your financial support you depend on individual donations and I can't think of any worthier cause than the little sisters of the poor. And on behalf of all those you've done so very much to help, I thank you. You know, Nancy and I coming down here from Camp David on the helicopter, we couldn't help but be thinking about this particular day and what it was. I think in hindsight, perhaps, I realize more about my mother than as so many of us knew did not at the time. Nellie was a little woman, a hauburn hair and I realize now had a strength through some very trying times that held our family together. She, we were poor, but the government didn't come around and tell us we were so we didn't know it and probably we didn't know it because Nellie was always finding someone that was worse off than we were that needed help. And my father was hard working, he had a sense of humor, he also had a very great problem but my mother saw that my brother and I from the time we were children understood that problem and that it was something, a sickness and that he was not to be blamed but to be loved and she taught us about life, I think, by her deeds as well as her words. She had never gone beyond in education, beyond elementary school but she had a different kind of education that I think has been imprinted and a faith that I know now has been bestowed on me. I'd like just tell a little anecdote about it. Some years after I was in Hollywood I was able to bring my parents out there and she immediately started finding people and one she found was a county tubercular sanitarium that could provide, as a public institution could of that kind, that necessary care but certainly failed in some of the home-like atmosphere that was necessary and my mother went to work and she visited that place regularly she arranged for movies to be shown and for television and things of that kind that they'd never had before and one night, and she has left us now but one night I was at a banquet I was the speaker at a banquet and a few years ago banquet food wasn't of the same quality that it is today and the waiter that was coming along leaned down to me and whispered and said would you rather have a big steak than what we're serving here? Well I said if that's possible, yes because I did a lot of banquet speaking in those days and I'd had enough of banquet food well he arrived back with the nicest big T-bone steak you ever saw and put it in front of me now in the meantime I had decided that he had to be a motion picture fan and he must have liked my pictures and I was basking in that kind of reflected glory and as he put the steak down he leaned down and whispered in my ear anytime for a relative of Nellie Reagan's I used to be a patient at Olive View Sanitarium but Nancy at the same time and this is a coincidence thank heaven Nancy's mother is still with us Nancy's mother living in Chicago was one of a kind also I don't think there was a policeman or a doorman or a cab driver or anyone like that in Chicago that didn't know Edith Davis because she too was always engaged in good works and we saw a classic example of that Nancy and I got off the train the New York 20th century limited in Chicago in the midst of a blizzard laden with bags and baggage and so forth from the trip we'd been on everyone else and not a red cap not a porter in sight and everyone's struggling with their bags and everything and we this whole length of the train to go and all of a sudden looked down and here came Nancy's mother arm in arm with two red caps and as she got closer we could hear she was asking the one about his children she knew his children's names knew all about them, what grade they were in and was talking to them the other one asked about his wife's operation she knew all about that too and just happened to stop by us and say well these are my children could you give them a hand with their bags and a whole train load of people saw us stride down the platform with Nancy's mother and with the two porters and they were still trying to manage with their bags and we had plenty of help I think things like this make me understand what Abe Lincoln was feeling when he said all that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother and I know there are many of you mothers in this room I also know that there are others who live as mothers live little sisters of the poor seventeen who are residents in this home and together with the 4,500 little sisters around the world who have chosen to give themselves completely in humble service to their fellow men and women the residents of your family your prayers and hard work have made this very friendly and it's very obvious a joyful home and thank you all for allowing us to share this special day with you and we wish each one of you a very happy rewarding Mother's Day and the blessings of our beloved God thank you


Governor Shane Martin has announced his administration's readiness to resolve all issues and restore the or your state's council of obis and shifts, stating it is imperative to do so. It means we have the traditional list at the House of Chiefs, Secretariat Aguddi Badda and called for recommendations and recommendations from council members. The government has received suggestions from all geopolitics cousins of the state and we will treat them with the utmost seriousness and confidentiality. Let us reflect on the bipartisan role that each of us play in the preservation and promotion of a rich country at everything. Let us seek common ground and impress unity, respect, mutual understanding in an effort to reconstitute the council of obis and chiefs in Oyo State. Now the event features the speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, head of service and commissioner of full justice and attorney general along with the traditional list from all Oyo State zones.