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Hello Everyone - John Providence - 07-02-2024
Brothers and Sisters,
I stumbled on to Ed's teachings over four years ago through a link someone left to one of his books in the Christian Mysticism subreddit. Ed's ministry just tied together so many seemingly unconnected things through my formal education and, more importantly, subsequent independent studies, that I immediately recognized the hand of Providence behind it and the incredible anointing he has.
Of course, I learned many new things through Ed, and I cannot thank him enough and often fight the urge not to get too upset about the fact that he, in my opinion, does not seem to have the kind of position or reach that I strongly believe he deserves because his perspective is so desperately needed, and increasing so, as the wicked tighten the corporate noose around our necks.
Through the years, Ed has been an accessible and wise counselor to me personally, but I put off coming out to this community because I was laser focused on completing my life's work which ended up taking over 16 years. Some of you may have read the book on substack because Ed was kind enough to recommend it on his page before he, and subsequently I, left that platform.
The story itself was completed at that time, but I had not been able to finish the Epilogue until a recent, unexpected development tied it all together and gave me the ending I could not, until that point, write to my satisfaction.
If you would like to read the story, it can be found here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/fools-costume-of-95816960
If any of you are so moved, I would welcome any feedback, questions, or corrections you might have or find. I do not know what to do with this thing now, but I am just so happy to be done with it and very satisfied with how it turned out even though I am a perfectionist who is rarely satisfied with anything I do.
I am reluctant to say much more about myself so as not to ruin the story for anyone that wants to read it. I will say that I am 47, married with one child, and live in central Minnesota.
If anyone would like to pray for me, please aske the Lord to give guidance on what to do with my story and what the next step for us is. I also just learned that I have a hernia that will probably make me lose my job just when my insurance kicked in. Not sure how to proceed with that, if I should try to keep working through incredible pain or just resign myself to the Lord's good and perfect Providence and trust that he will provide, which he always does, but it is sometimes not clear what to do.
Thanks for reading this and for your prayers. Blessings on you all!
RE: Hello Everyone - forrealone - 07-02-2024
Hi, John. Let me first introduce myself to you - I am Linda aka forrealone. I want to welcome you here. Know that we care and look out for each other - mainly through prayer and support. I feel for you in your current struggle - hernias are not easy to live with and, yes the pain is agonizing. May Our Lord bless you with strength to manage that, wisdom and discernment to know how to deal with this and encouragement to know you are on the right path - in life, here at the forum and each day ahead of you.
We are here, for however we can be, to provide encouragement/support/help to you!
God bless.
RE: Hello Everyone - Ed Hurst - 07-02-2024
Brother, you’re supposed to write about yourself, not me
I’m glad you finally got finished with your book and joined the fellowship. We need you.
RE: Hello Everyone - jaybreak - 07-02-2024
Hi John! It's good to have you here! Welcome to the fold.
We have prayer every Wednesday at 5 PM EST, along but together. I post every Wednesday morning here to remind everyone.
I'll send you a PM about something else we have regularly.
I put your book on my list to read. I also write and do editing on the side, so if you're open to feedback (seems like you are), I can send you what I come up with.
RE: Hello Everyone - John Providence - 07-02-2024
(07-02-2024, 05:27 PM)forrealone Wrote: Hi, John. Let me first introduce myself to you - I am Linda aka forrealone. I want to welcome you here. Know that we care and look out for each other - mainly through prayer and support. I feel for you in your current struggle - hernias are not easy to live with and, yes the pain is agonizing. May Our Lord bless you with strength to manage that, wisdom and discernment to know how to deal with this and encouragement to know you are on the right path - in life, here at the forum and each day ahead of you.
We are here, for however we can be, to provide encouragement/support/help to you!
God bless.
Thank you Linda, my name is Erik. I will keep everyone posted about my hernia, lol, never thought I would say something like that!
(07-02-2024, 07:33 PM)jaybreak Wrote: Hi John! It's good to have you here! Welcome to the fold.
We have prayer every Wednesday at 5 PM EST, along but together. I post every Wednesday morning here to remind everyone.
I'll send you a PM about something else we have regularly.
I put your book on my list to read. I also write and do editing on the side, so if you're open to feedback (seems like you are), I can send you what I come up with.
Oh wow, that would be great, hopefully you will not find too many editorial type problems, but most importantly, hopefully you enjoy the story. I currently start work (graveyard shift) at 4 central, so I would not be able to join you in prayer, but who knows? I might not be working there form much longer. I do not enjoy working until 3 AM anyway.
RE: Hello Everyone - davew9804 - 07-03-2024
Welcome JP (Erik)... Glad to have you here. My profile is in this same thread and I joined some 5+ years ago. The prayer support here is excellent and the discussion is good also.
RE: Hello Everyone - Robust1 - 07-03-2024
Welcome to RF!