Just being me I guess!
Just got back home from Kentucky this morning... Had a very nice and long trip down and back! I saw the property in Munfordville and loved it! When we got back to the hotel yesterday (sat) sitting outside the door was a woman (30-ish) crying. So I asked my friend at the front desk what was going on and she told me this woman had just walked over 7 miles in the heat to the hotel because her SOB husband beat her up and kicked her out. He was supposed to come down and pay for her room for the night. I introduced my self and asked her if she would like to talk with me so we sat on the bench outside and she told me she had two toddlers at home, her Mom lives in her basement and has no idea what has happened. She said her husband had just texted her and said your on your own, don't come "F"ing back! She was devastated beyond words... So I talked with my friend and cut a deal, I paid for two nights... I packed up and my friend cleaned the room and we gave it to her. Then I loaded my car, pulled two steaks out of my cooler and cooked them on the hotels grill outside, bought some cold slaw and chips.... My friend, my traveling companion and our new friend (battered Mom) had steak dinner which we ate in the breakfast room in the hotel! her spirit was greatly improved when the four of us ate our dinner. She had a clean room, cold air, a full meal and a shower to wash off a very bad day! The Holy Spirit guided me once again, I take no credit for what we did, God had guided me! My friend and I came home a day early...! It cost me $70.00 to put a life back on tract a bit... I pray that she has a better day today... and I never asked her .... her name... didn't matter, she needed a friend! She shook my hand, gave me a hug and as I drove off I screamed out the window... Hi Yo Silver!!! (not really, but was an after thought)
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I so wish my \'family\' from church had your spirit -- that would have saved me ten years of an unreal Twilight Zone nightmare to endure that has forced me to see reality as it is instead of as my faith wanted it to be.
The Christian community had better wake up and begin being the true salt of the earth and the needed light in the darkness before even more people are forced to see a reality that proves certain facts that are a part of the reality called life. The person I called \'pastor\' did the most harm but the one I called \'Father\' over us all lifted not one finger of justice or even mercy over those 8.5 years I faced repeated trips by ambulance to the ER facing death and multiple surgeries for my refusal to face reality as it is but instead clung to my lifetime of beliefs that where proved to be not sustainable. All I needed was for a week or two every now and again over those years to allow for some needed healing to allow for a life and only reality presented itself to be accepted if I wanted at all to survive it.
The Christian community has the resources to bring positive change but instead appears to value the principal of greed over their claimed reality of a living god. When we don\'t reach out for help in our crisis as widows, orphans and the fatherless we are told by the \'rightious\' that no one is capable of reading our \'minds\' and it is on us to \'ask, seek and knock\' but when we do we are shamed and made to feel as worthless garbage -- no wonder so many churches are filled with those treating god as \'Santa Clause\' to serve their whims and treating the church as if it were a tax exempt county club to meet up to play a round or two of golf and enjoy the finer material wealth ideals of this life. \"Many will say Lord, Lord, and He will respond, \'Depart from me ye workers of inequity for I never knew you.\" \"It is better to be cold or hot than to be lukewarm as to be lukewarm He will spew thee out of His mouth.\" A lot of Christian better prepare for the spewing forth as their obligation to be the salt of the earth and the light in the darkness where they are in fact DEMANDED of their god to be their brothers keeper but instead exploit and harm the widow, fatherless and orphan for personal gain and pleasure -- to be spewed forth out of the mouth of their professed god while they feed off the misery of those they have left as if dead to suffer. The Catholic church worked hard to oppressed those they sexually victimized for decades and even intimated the parents of these children into shameful silence by filling them with threats and fear of what would happen to the mortal soul if they ever reveled the truth and expose the church for the monsters these perpetrates of harm were. The internet linking us all together into a global village has done away with \'dirty, religious secret acts of harm and given victims their ability to have a voice and opportunity to find needed justice and healing to restore what remains of their shattered lives when those who were trusted by them as \'family\' but when crisis hit they were not cared for well to allow healing but instead exploited and greatly harmed for personal gain of those claiming to love the bible-god who demands that we are in fact OUR BROTHER\'S KEEPER. \"Whatsoever ye do to the least of these, my brethren, ye do also unto me.\" Proof that it is not love that is for god but greed that is for self where god is treated as some type of self-created \'Santa Clause\' to serve the self-righteous whims the so-called \'faithful\'.
The \'carpet\' the \'righteous\' have, and are continue to do so, swept the dirt under to hide from public view, thanks to the internet linking us together into a global village, can no longer be hidden but is slowing being further exposed for what it is over time. My church has actively sought revenge on my life for my seeking justice and healing for the harm they have chosen to inflict that has left my illness so severe at times I am left alone here in bed to suffer trying to hang on the best I can. Ten years of survive truth and as the bible taught me over my lifetime, \"Truth shall set you free.\' and I am free of what was proven false by those I trust as my \'family\' with our \'Father\' over us all who for years with AWOL proving a truth I almost died trying to survive it.
I\'m glad you \'live\' and \'practice\' your faith. When young someone shared with me that people are watching us and we may be the only \'bible\' some people will ever have the opportunity to read and get to know -- what is the \'message\' Christians are giving the world -- more and more people have been forced to accept a truth, just to survive the horrors of the nightmare given to them by the Christian community -- and the numbers are growing daily of those of us who have been forced to accept truth to allow for survival that we never imagined could possibly exist in even the very worst of nightmares -- the \'gift\' given to me by my Christian family and the Father who suppose to be over us all caring for the orphans, widows and the fatherless who are on the front line of exploitation and harm without even mercy given them in their need. The Christian community had better take seriously the spreading of the truth that is forcing the masses to face reality to survive it.
Thank you for caring and living your faith -- you are an exception to a rule that is growing ever more deadly to the idea of Christian as \'family\'. Most churches no longer even believe in the traditional place known as \'hell\' with brimstone and quenching fire. Hell, at the worst any longer, has been transformed into a place of darkens, nothingness and separation from the Holy. It appears the Christian community has been working as hard as they can to make the \'afterlife\' just as non-threatening and comfortable as they possibly can -- sadly, most are so heavenly minded they are no earthy good, unless you count wealth and privilege as \'good, then they are standing in front enjoying the very best of it all. He, the god so many claim to love and serve in Christ, had no place to call home or to lay His head where he sacrificed all he had to serve the poorest of the poor and those considered worthless by society.
Thank you and keep up the great work -- before the masses get so fed up they disallow religion shared at all any longer or it becomes so transformed you cannot tell it from the world as they appear the same in wealth and privilege.
May God bless you, Rev, for all you do..
Patriciann, may God bless you.
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Thank you both... Pat, He watches over you everyday .. fear not my friend... I can feel it!
What an inspirational story. You were at the right place at the right time. God Bless you.
I KNEW THE DAY WE MET THAT YOU WERE AWESOME & I THANK GOD EVERY SINGLE DAY HE BROUGHT U INTO MY LIFE NOT ENOUGH WORDS CAN I SAY HOW MUCH YOU HAVE BEEN HERE FOR ME - THAT WAS AN AWESOME THING YOU DID WE NEED ALOT MORE PEOPLE LIKE U - YOU HAVE BEEN MY ROCK & IM SO VERY BLESSED TO KNOW THE MOST SWEETEST AWESOMEST REV.
(((TONS OF SMILES - JOY - PEACE - KISSES - LOVE - HOPE - FAITH)))...
I am proud to be your friend! I only wish I could have been there to help too. She sounded like she needed your guidance! Hopefully all is well in her life now - or at least a little brighter and I am thankful you made it back safe. You are an inspiration to so many and you are very loved! Many hugs my friend! You are as always in my thoughts and prayers! Love you! Thank you for being the wonderful person you are!
Denny, You are a servant from God, that\'s awesome that you helped her, she really did deserve you to help her,
God bless you!!