Thanks Ray, and Merry Christmas to you and your family. 2025 is looking pretty good for my pocketbook, that is if 'they' don't kill us first. 2024 was a downer.
Thank you kindly. SS does bring in about $13 a day, which was the same up to two years ago, but I'm not complaining. Chances are, AI is going to take over whatever I'm doing. The only way you'll find out about that is that I start contradicting myself. At this point, even that is not entirely convincing, but I'm sure you'll still recognize me, when the time comes. At 4,200 readers, I am still not a target.
2025 seems like a COLD winter, so whatever I said before shortages, might be coming. At the same time, based on all the fake "alt" sites, I am developing the idea that the actual attack is from somewhere else. Will keep you and my other readers posted and publish, once I'm ready...
It's about my life, and my stack is about that only... And no, I do not disclose everything about myself.
I just hope it will give other readers the joy (the full spectrum of the human experience) I have always felt. It always makes me cry, so I tend to listen to it only once a year. :)
If you got to the footnotes, I can also tell you that those who can listen to this and cry (I just had one of those episodes, when I cried for all the people whom I cannot help, and are suffering, powerless, and sometimes even cause the suffering to themselves), they might be make it, assuming "those days will be cut short." All I am is at the full disposal of our Creator and Redeemer. :) Still, no assurance that I deserve to be saved.
So thankful that salvation doesn't rest on our 'deserving' but on God's amazing grace in our lives...for sure we could never be deserving enough on our own efforts !
I used to worry about the heart growing cold too and that was before embarking along the Christian walk ! ...I wasn't known for my umm..."stickability" in things and lost interest quickly, especially if the going got tough, and wasn't at all sure this would be any different...and so I kept my distance for quite some time. I also didn't believe God when He said through Scripture that He would remember my sins no more if I followed Him...("Yeah, right...forgotten until it suits you to remind me and beat my over the head with it".) Well, He still hasn't shown any signs of remembering and it was over fifty three years ago now that my heart of stone was replaced with one of flesh instead......Covid times gave me extra-depth in my Christian experience and woke me up to the deceptions and evil of the world and Ephesians took on a whole new light for me with teaching that our fight is against the powers of the air and not against flesh and blood.....it served to make me deep dive into my Bible and cling to our Creator even more in awe and gratitude for what He has given us as His children and heirs. My heart is on fire more now than it ever was and I wish and pray for the same for all. Thank you so much for your posts over the year.
I am cleaning out in my past. I no longer want people in my life who cannot show their genuine feelings and make fun of you when you cry. NO. They have to go. Strength is not an unnatural tendency to keep all your innermost feelings to yourself in order to give off the impression you are oh so strong or manly or both or whatnot. NO. It is exactly the opposite. Please receive a real warm hug with love.
Points 1&2 - make you Beautifully and wonderfully human. I enjoy your thoughts, thank you for the privilege of reading them. Wise words and lessons learned. Cheers Ray 🥂
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones Ray ❤️🕊️👼
Merry Christmas to all those who read this, may 2025 be a year like no other with the Holy Spirit moving like a tornado through out each of our lives, restoring peace, harmony and faith 🙏🥰🕊️🤍
And for something different and sublime .... Persian music on the setar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hob0eZ4W_wE
Thanks Ray, and Merry Christmas to you and your family. 2025 is looking pretty good for my pocketbook, that is if 'they' don't kill us first. 2024 was a downer.
Thank you kindly. SS does bring in about $13 a day, which was the same up to two years ago, but I'm not complaining. Chances are, AI is going to take over whatever I'm doing. The only way you'll find out about that is that I start contradicting myself. At this point, even that is not entirely convincing, but I'm sure you'll still recognize me, when the time comes. At 4,200 readers, I am still not a target.
2025 seems like a COLD winter, so whatever I said before shortages, might be coming. At the same time, based on all the fake "alt" sites, I am developing the idea that the actual attack is from somewhere else. Will keep you and my other readers posted and publish, once I'm ready...
Thank you for posting this again Ray!!
It's about my life, and my stack is about that only... And no, I do not disclose everything about myself.
I just hope it will give other readers the joy (the full spectrum of the human experience) I have always felt. It always makes me cry, so I tend to listen to it only once a year. :)
If you got to the footnotes, I can also tell you that those who can listen to this and cry (I just had one of those episodes, when I cried for all the people whom I cannot help, and are suffering, powerless, and sometimes even cause the suffering to themselves), they might be make it, assuming "those days will be cut short." All I am is at the full disposal of our Creator and Redeemer. :) Still, no assurance that I deserve to be saved.
So thankful that salvation doesn't rest on our 'deserving' but on God's amazing grace in our lives...for sure we could never be deserving enough on our own efforts !
I used to worry about the heart growing cold too and that was before embarking along the Christian walk ! ...I wasn't known for my umm..."stickability" in things and lost interest quickly, especially if the going got tough, and wasn't at all sure this would be any different...and so I kept my distance for quite some time. I also didn't believe God when He said through Scripture that He would remember my sins no more if I followed Him...("Yeah, right...forgotten until it suits you to remind me and beat my over the head with it".) Well, He still hasn't shown any signs of remembering and it was over fifty three years ago now that my heart of stone was replaced with one of flesh instead......Covid times gave me extra-depth in my Christian experience and woke me up to the deceptions and evil of the world and Ephesians took on a whole new light for me with teaching that our fight is against the powers of the air and not against flesh and blood.....it served to make me deep dive into my Bible and cling to our Creator even more in awe and gratitude for what He has given us as His children and heirs. My heart is on fire more now than it ever was and I wish and pray for the same for all. Thank you so much for your posts over the year.
THANK YOU.
I am cleaning out in my past. I no longer want people in my life who cannot show their genuine feelings and make fun of you when you cry. NO. They have to go. Strength is not an unnatural tendency to keep all your innermost feelings to yourself in order to give off the impression you are oh so strong or manly or both or whatnot. NO. It is exactly the opposite. Please receive a real warm hug with love.
Points 1&2 - make you Beautifully and wonderfully human. I enjoy your thoughts, thank you for the privilege of reading them. Wise words and lessons learned. Cheers Ray 🥂
Beautiful! Thank you for introducing me to music I have never heard ❤️🤗
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones Ray ❤️🕊️👼
Merry Christmas to all those who read this, may 2025 be a year like no other with the Holy Spirit moving like a tornado through out each of our lives, restoring peace, harmony and faith 🙏🥰🕊️🤍
Merry Christmas
Beautiful music. Thank you.
It sums up my life. It might do the same for others, but knowing the words might help...
Merry Christmas Ray and family.
✝️🎄🎁🎄✝️
merry christmas. thinking of the 1914 Christmas truce in the trenches of WW1 (it can be done).
Which is why they started bombing civilians in WW2...
Today's equivalents are not only wars, but also the countless ways of dividing the people:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/divide-and-rule-is-working-in-mysterious