> Introductions, Announcements, and More of Ray's Teachings
Here I am, on a rainy day in Oregon!
conrad:
hi Linda,
I'm Dave- I'm new here too. I've been reading Ray's stuff for about a year. It has, through the application of the Spirit had such a positive effect on my life (combined with some pretty serious trials). I am starting to realise how true joy can coexist with pain and sorrow. After all Paul commanded us to "Rejoice in the Lord always and (if you didn't quite catch that) AGAIN I say rejoice"! So while you're being beaten with rods... Rejoice! While you're in danger of robbers on the road... rejoice! While you're shipwrecked... Rejoice! While.... you get the idea. : )
That's not easy, but it's what we're called (and chosen) for. So, thank you for your encouragement. I guess this is a useful means of fellowship for you with your hearing dificulties. I get the impression it is a small and strong (in weakness) group of people who are truly learning, in many ways, to be overcomers. My battle has, among other things been with acute mental illness. I know for a fact that with God I would never have made it through the past seven years. But, in the suffering we are all growing, and being formed by the Master. Feel free to msg me for a chat anytime.
Look forward to hearing how you get on with your bible studying. It sounds quite heavy, but I'm sure you will be greatly blessed. I have never come across Rotherham's. May well check it out.
Well, peace to you sister(s),
He is Risen. He is Risen indeed!
d
Grateful:
Hi Folks!!
It's late right now, and I just re-read all your wonderful "Emails" (after leaving at 9 am this morning and getting back at 6 pm, from a humongously-long orthopedic Dr. visit (he had an extraordinarily complex case to take care of, prior to several other patients & me, so I did NOT "fume"....it was IMPORTANT for him to take care of that patient FIRST) -- mine took 2 1/2 hours altogether!!! Wow! We ate out, then shopped at WalMart, and I got all kinds o' goodies, including "Baby Clouds" yarn to make a really fluffy wreath, and autumn decor of several kinds to grace our table with the glorious colors of fall ! Yay!
I just want to say one thing real quick, and then I'll get back to y'all at another time : Conrad, I KNOW what acute mental illness is like, because I was hit extremely HARD with clinical depression (at first it was mental AND emotional, but then turned into just emotional illness -- a hideous agony) 6 months after our twins were born, and am STILL taking antidepressants. Thankfully, I rarely feel the emotional effects of the depression now, and when I DO feel it, it usually is only for a few seconds. I have discovered that EVERY SINGLE TIME I went through a bout of depression, I came out on the other side of it HAPPIER than I was before I went through it.....again, ANOTHER faith-lifter!! (A good joke here is : "Let GOD give you a faith-lift!! It's the GREATEST!!" ;-DDDDD [ biiiiig Smile!!! HAHAHA! ] ). Sooo, Conrad.....HANG IN THERE, even if it feels sometimes like it's by the skin of your teeth for the moment. Two of the things I've learned in Life is : one, the Buddhists say "The only thing constant in Life is Change," and two, "This, TOO, SHALL pass!!!" ;-DDD
LOVE to All , and GOOD Night!! And TTYL ! (Talk To You Later ! )
Linda
indianabob:
Linda,
So good to read your message.
We all are grateful and appreciative of what God is giving us.
I hope to hear from you and learn more about your journey toward salvation and serving God.
Please don't fear about taking too much of our time. Your story is very valuable to each of us.
Regards, indianabob
Scribbles:
Hi Linda ! It's been sooooooo awesome to read this thread over these last few days. I had hoped to reply sooner, to welcome you. There are a couple other "deafies" here, and one other brother has several members of his family that are deaf....you're right at home, sis. You're not gonna believe this...I'm deaf too, measles when I was 2 or 3 years old, the german measles that affected my nerves, and my real name is Linda !!!! I think this is the first time I've ever told anyone here at the forum my real name.....lol.....I'm pretty "shy" for the most part, but I love the "idiot" side of me, too.....lol....In some parts of the states, they say being "backwards" instead of shy. Along my way, I've stepped on alot of thorns while trying to smell the roses, and other times got turned around and wound up in the briar-patch. But, He's always picked me up, to do the walk again....I'm pushin 60, one of the "gramma's" here...lol.....I feel so much at home here, even though I spent a life-time not "fitting in", nor knowing where I was suppose to live, who to be/not be with, from having actual powers of darkness to the Lord calling me to serve Him instead of the evil one, from attending all kinds of churches (take your pick...lol )...to recieving understanding of the doctrine errors and staying home to "learn".....to finding this forum and website. I'm finally "home".....your name says it all....Grateful. There's a host of us here that surely know what you mean....lol.....and just to think, the Lord has only just to begin on us....lol...
Welcome aboard
Grateful:
Hiii, Scribbles (Linda!! ;-DDD Biiiig Smile!!) , Indianabob, and just for now, Janice!!
Hey, Scribbles, you knocked MY Email for a loop when YOU posted!! Apparently you posted just one second before I! did, and then I couldn't find MY original Email that I was directing at Janice, regarding her reference to her testimonial thread, "Caregiver shares more" (about her husband's AND her father's Alzheimer's) !! HAHAHA!! Oh well, that Email of mine coulda stood being pared down in size anyhow, soooo that's what I'll do right here in THIS Email! ;->
So, Scribbles (are those YOUR beautiful cats???), YOU had the German measlies (sic) too, eh?? Tell me, do YOU speak with a German accent TOO?!!!! AH HAHAHAHAHAA! My husband & I (soon to celebrate our 40th Wedding Anniversary) do an awful lot of kidding around too....we KNOW what "the idiot side" of human personality means TOO. OHHHHH, I WISH I KNEW how to "operate" the BBC's and Smiley icons too, so that I could personalize my Emails even more, and "jazz them up", like Janice knows SO WELL how to do!!! HAHAHA! ;-DDDD !! So far, my computer confounds me.... I too have gone ALL my life "not fitting in," so I guess you also know the full meaning of "Loneliness"?? (Even in a crowd!). Do you read lips too, or do you use sign language, or what? I've ALREADY pole-vaulted over 60, and am also known as "Gramma" to my grandchildren! Well, is this a small world (in a VAST Universe), or WHAT?! Ha! On another tack, I feel I've "come Home" among all of you dear Spiritual Searchers (or, Warriors?!!) here on this BT Forum, at long last!! YOU ALL are ONE of the REASONS I am "Grateful"!!! Yay!
Indianabob, since I did major in Biology (a science), I have always leaned toward trying to reconcile science & the spiritual side of Life. My husband & I have watched (captioned) documentaries on suchlike things as archeology (especially of the Biblical lands), human genetics, astronomers & their astronomical discoveries in olden times, the earth (like volcanology, geology, national parks, other countries & cultures), etc., ETC.! I even read the book, "The Tao of Physics" by Dr. Fritjof Capra, a famous nuclear physicist, and was absolutely blown away by his extremely-scientific revelations (and PHOTOS!!) down to the nuclear level of matter! As far as I was concerned, he PROVED the fact of God's Existence, if you were to read that book and SEE what I mean. (I had to read that book THREE TIMES, in order to fully UNDERSTAND what the author was SAYING! It was SO absorbing!) BTW, I was baptized Catholic at age 8, because my Italian grandmother wanted me to be (went to catechism from age 6 to 8), never went to church on my own until after my twins were born, and had them go to Sunday School at age 3, because I wanted them to at least have SOME Spiritual Ideas embedded into their minds, although I didn't know at the time that Hell was nonexistent (I'd never really given it much thought, though). I had gone to Ladies' Bible Studies after I was married, for several years, and as my girls grew older than 3, I went to church, but never "fit in", due to being "ignored" by almost every single person, socially-speaking. Finally, one day I simply quit going to church, because something finally "snapped" in my mind, about not really getting what I needed so very much: pure, sheer, undiluted joy of close spiritual comradeship among church members. To be sure, there WERE two gals, one especially, who DID "pay attention" to me, and I AM SO Grateful for them!!! ;-DDDD !! To this very day, I'm in close touch with both of them.
Janice! I EMPATHIZE "moocho" with youuuuuu......my dad, too, had Alzheimer's, for 8 years. My mother took care of him 25/8 , if you get my meaning!!!! According to my mother, he was a 2-year-old in a very strong body, physically & health-wise. She cooked nutritious meals, and gave him his daily pills (although I once saw him sneakily throw them away when he thought no one was looking). He became combative toward the end, so my brother had to step in and do for my mother what she could not bring herself to do: have him put into an Alzheimer's nursing facility. He was so sad there, missed my mother so much and begged to come back home....he died one month later, peacefully in his sleep in the hospital, to where he was rushed on that April day last year, with my mother and brother & wife at his bedside. I felt bad that I could not be there then...
I have to go now to fix dinner, and try to send this before I lose this Email (haha!). Chat more with y'all later!! ;-> !!
Love,
Linda
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