"What happened that got you tied to that tree?" the demure man asked.
“Well I am getting to that,” Matthew said and then continued "One day when my sons and daughters were at their oldest brother’s house, a messenger came to me and said that my horses were running in the field with the donkeys grazing near them when a raiding party from Diger came and carried them off. They put all the servants to the sword, and that he was the only one who escaped.
But while he was still speaking, yet another men came busting through the door, rambling on about raiders, three bands of them, falling on the storehouse and carrying off all the gold. They put the servants to the sword too, and he was the only one who escaped to tell me.
As the man was still speaking, another man came and said that my sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house when suddenly a strong wind blew in from over the desert. It struck the four corners of the house so that it fell on the young people; they were all dead.
Another man came running in saying that fire from The Sustainer fell out of the sky and burned up all my land and the servants; it completely destroyed it all. He said that he had seen it all and had come to tell me. Finally, Collarin himself came crashing through the house slaying my wife and the men right before my very eyes. He then grabbed me, bound me hand and foot and carried me off to the remote parts of the knot woods where he tied me to a tree and began to bargain with me. I commanded him to leave and he fled. I was then left tied to this tree for three days" Matthew finished.
"Wow, after all that why not just curse The Sustainer and be killed by fire?" the demure man suggested. "For surely you have upset The Sustainer for him to do this horrible thing to you" the demure man observed. "When one does wrong The Sustainer punishes him. You, Matthew, are being punished so you must have done something wrong" the demure man added.
"I have done no indiscretion against man nor The Sustainer" Matthew said. "Why is it that you send your wrath upon me Lord?" Matthew cried.
God Bless C.D.S