Well, Ray isn't dead yet. Geez. haha. We're already in mourning!
I've changed my picture. It suits the way I feel inside. I don't feel like doing anything. The days are way too long. It's not like you can push it out of your head.
Not just anyone can do what Ray, Dennis and the mods are doing. If you've ever doubted, try doing a fifth of what Kat has done by typing up the studies, and then add to that all that the mods do, and then add to that all that Dennis is doing, and then meditate on all that Ray has done and it becomes abundantly clear that not just anyone can do this. That's why I'm not ashamed to be apart of this organism.
We have so much to learn. Thank God we have in writing and on video what Ray taught us so we can continue learning. We live in amazing times.
To Manuela and their daughter and all of us here, I say:
1 Thess. 4:13 Brothers (and sisters), we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.
We know now that the reason the "rest of men grieve like they have no hope" isn't because there's no hope in sight, but they grieve like there's no hope because they haven't been given eyes to see that there IS hope.
John 12:24 I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Prov. 18:24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
This ministry is a God-send! If you only knew where I came from, you'd say, Yes! God really performs miracles! Not even joking.
I've given Ray and Dennis and Craig a ton of crap over the last eight years and they are the only men in my entire life (no exaggeration) who not only did not one single thing to deserve it, but who handled it all quite easily--with one hand tied behind their back! lol And they never hurt me back or tried to retaliate--not even once!
I've come and gone from this forum about 8 times and each time I want to come back they have not hesitated: Door's wide open, watch your step, we'll be praying for you! That's it! No taking me out to the woodshed, none of that! That is proof right there that they love me... purely.
And I haven't been able to figure out how they do it, so I've been sticking around to find out. I want to love like that.
Kat, that was beautiful what you said.
God bless everybody.