At last I've finished the program 3D-Brush. But at the very last moment I doubted because it could be used as you liked including for not good purposes. Then we decided to make a limitation in license agreement and download section with reference to responsibility before God in using the program for bad purposes. It would be against our conscience to release the program without such limitation and we would suffer from watching how our program is being used. A sense of peace with God and your own conscience is much more expensive than any money. After that a storm came! A sharp dispute has begun on NewTek (and Mudbox) forum about my supposedly intrusion of my religion through my program. Furthermore, I was accused of hypocrisy, yet that was reasonable because I made games before. Those very hard two weeks of my life. I remembered a principle «do not judge, or you too will be judged». I judged others (the church I attended). I called people to be opened to solve painful problems instead of suppression. Now I was judged myself. Was it good or bad? I'm sure it was good. What shall I do? Shall I say: «oh, what a sinners who oppose God!» or I shall try to look into, try to understand others and try to help them understand me. I spoke with people a lot, I told them about my position about my life and so on. Eventually we've moderated our license agreement conditions in a way to keep the meaning but to make it less defiant. After a while the storm had calmed down but I've recieved an important lesson — you must always clarify a situation and try to deal with those who have something against you (of course I don't mean, for example, bandits who want to rob you and not to listen for your arguments). It is written in the Bible, I've already written about that.

    Now we've made a meeting in our flat. Basicly my old friends come. We study the Bible deeply and we try to do it objectively as long as we are not a part of any denomination; we're just a Christians, those who follow the Christ. As it turned out we are not alone in that. There are a lot of such small groups as ours in Kiev and all over the world. You can see it on http://simplechurch.com.ua. It is very close to our world-view. We gather together occasionally but there is no dependence from each other. There is a cooperation, there is a similar aims, there is a desire to serve other people and bring them a testimony about Jesus Christ. It is much better to be dependent on the Christ than on the other people.

    This story is not finished yet. I'm sure there will be a lot of interesting in it. And I'm so thankful to God. To live with him is so much better than to hide from him. I'm aslo thankful to those people who have been supporting me and rebuked when I was wrong. Thanks to Marina, Stas, Volodya, my mom and Granny. Without their patience and firmness it would be hard.

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