I paused looking around the room like I expected someone to jump up and answer me. When no one did I gave a slight shrug then gave my answer, "In that context the lord means the lord our God, the father of all humanity, who lives in heaven and crafts every day we see with loving care. Which is a whole sermon in itself. The important thing is I do believe he exists just as much as the lord or our lord and he does want us to rejoice and be happy. But now you might be even more confused then you were at the start, if God is the lord in that phrase, is he also the lord every other time I have said it?"
I paused giving them time to think about what I had asked and all the other times I said the lord, "No, there are three lords in our life and we are not very good at saying which one we mean. God our lord in heaven who wants humanity to rejoice at its existence and how he helps us beat the odds every day. The lord of our land and lives the survivor that protects us from forces that were left from the last time God started over. And Our lord the ruler of our day to day lives whose presence we feel most strongly. Which brings me to what I really wanted to talk about today, How did we get here?"
"I won't go over the whole story, if you want to learn more there are a few scholars around that can help you out later. God made the whole of everything in existence. Including the first humans, Adam and Eve. God made paradise on earth but Eve was tricked into disobeying god and he punished humanity by taking back paradise. Eve had many children, including two boys that were the first to be a murder victim and a merderer. Showing god again that his creation could be evil. Generations went by and the children of the murderer spread around the world. The world grew dark as god watched until god decided to do something about it. God picked one family that had kept the faith and warned them that he was going to kill everything that walks the land. God loves his creation and destroying so much of it hurt god but the humans that remained were better than the end they had all been heading for but God promised the survivors that he would not do that again and he shows us a reminder of his promise with rainbows. After Noah the world stayed patchy at best in how much love humans had for each other. Family was all any man could hope to have faith in and strangers were largely regarded as evil. Anything different from you could hurt you so people recoiled. God watched for many more generations before trying another solution. God chose one child to bless into existence whose only father was god. He showed humanity how to live a good life and love one another as god loves us, his children. After that God sat back and watched what we would do for even more generations. Humans are very slow, it took over a thousand more years before the teaching started to sink into humanity and change our choices. I personally don't think god was disappointed with how we grew and how we understood him. What bothers god is how we treat each other. So this time god sent an outside force to reduce the humans. The day the First arrived there were over 7 billion people in the world." I paused for that number to settle in. Some people looked around the number like they were counting how many were here, "This city currently has about 10,000 people living in it. That is quite a difference from the million that lived in these tall buildings when they were first made. The First might have been the tool god used but that much death could only be an act of god, and like every other time god destroyed massive amounts of his creation he saved parts of it. Noah was given how to build a boat, Harus, the lord, was given the abilities of the threat to mankind but in a limited function. God inspired the people he saved the knowledge of how to trap the First. God saw that the unlikely plan worked, and destroyed all but three of the newly modified humans. God gave them the wisdom to share the world instead of fighting to control the whole, which all of them could have been strong enough to do without the First around. Our lord was given guardianship of the land we live on, and to this day God regularly works through the lord, and our lord."
I took a breath and smiled out at the faces watching me, "Lord Harus, the lord, gives us what humanity didn't have before his creation. A clearly unifying commander, someone to link us from the past to the future. A guiding light where there had not been one before. Now you might be thinking, but I don't know this lord, I haven't seen him, he hasn't helped me, how could I call him the savior when he isn't around?"
"The world is small, but larger then we will ever know. The lord controls almost ½ of the land in the world, he is a second gen vampire. He is faster, smarter, and has magic, but he is still human sized and limited to one body. The lord is the king, but even the best king needs help; they cannot be everywhere. Right after the First was trapped and the Seconds divided the world the lord went about making advisors he thought he could trust. Third gens to help him get control over humanity but there is a price for the power the lords control. God knows that humans take care of things they need better than things that they don't see a need for, so since the lords were human first he handicapped them into always needing the humans they are supposed to protect."