Ray Hayes Part 5

Today on John Dash and Friends, John sits down with his friend Ray Hayes—a young voice with remarkable wisdom and genuine kindness. In this heartfelt conversation, Ray shares powerful life lessons that challenge, uplift, and inspire. More than just a talk, this episode is a meaningful moment you won’t forget. Tune in and let it speak to you.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Sometimes people don't know what to do with you and you've got to keep reaffirming now. Take a look at me, put a pencil on me, mm-hmm and see my agenda. Mm-hmm. See where I'm at.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:08

And if I'm off, let me know.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

You know, but I I want to make sure. And I think the same thing with the Lord. When I I can do all things through Christ Jesus, but he says, all in the word, I will if you will. Mm-hmm. He ain't just gonna give. He says, I'll give if you give. If thou canst believe. Right. All through the Bible, I I work with you. Yeah. And I had the Lord ask me one time, I was I was working on a television tower and doing some things, and and I said, Lord, thank you for letting me work. He said, uh, thank you for letting me trust you. And man, it just destroyed me. Yeah. You know, and uh, you know, just destroyed me and because I I was happy that he trusted me to work. Not just to try my best, but to get the jobs done. And I think that's important.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

You know, uh all of what we do uh with my grandson a while back and we was here and stations went off the air. This stuff everything went off. And I said, There's nobody we can call. We know more about this than anybody. There is nobody to call. We've got to fix it. You know, so we got out and programmed and looked and done this and done that until we got everything back up and going. But I said, we can't call anybody. There's nobody to call. And uh there's some situations in life, you have to get it done. You really got to get it done. You know, well, let's talk about when when uh we f we first met, you had the gym in Taz. Well, we probably met before that somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

We did before that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

Yeah, but that was something. Yeah, you know, we met at McDonald's, and you got me on a diet one time. You wrote me out an eating plan, and it was chicken nuggets on it. I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

It was chicken nuggets, and uh and uh probably not a good idea looking back at it.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

No, those chicken nuggets were on it, but it was on it.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

I remember that. The best I could at the time. You could have done better. You could have gotten a real chicken. Yeah, I could have done better.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Ooh, had a chicken nugget, had a six-piece chicken nugget on it. Well, I seen uh a while back I seen uh Shorty. Oh yeah, Larry. Yeah, yeah. His wife.

SPEAKER_01 2:13

Yeah, Billy.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

And uh I seen her at the gym a while back, and I hauled her over to Y when I go to Y in the mornings and seen her and spoke to her.

SPEAKER_01 2:20

I haven't seen them in years.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Yeah, I spoke to her and I and seen her. But you see people around, you know, you think about it. Right. That's the only person I've ever seen. But that's been a long time ago. Yeah, yeah. You know, I I've shared this a bunch and we'll talk about some things. But I talked about this a while back. You ever see pi I find common threads of people that go through depression? And one of the things I find is they don't have friends. Okay? Yeah. And I found when you get older, you start losing friends because they die. Or they leave or something, you know what I mean? And I started several years ago, and I've shared this before, I started looking for ways to make new friends. Because I started losing friends. They would die. Yeah. Okay. And if you live long enough, your friends die. Yeah. Okay. That's right. I lost was losing good friends, and my world was getting smaller. And I said, hold on a second. Let me find I see people that are going through this depression and they find they don't have friends. So I started enriching my life more with different people. And I found that's a big thing of help. Absolutely. Because we can become isolated if we're not careful.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

And we're designed to be connected. God designed us to be connected in community. And you know, I mean there's solitude. That's that's a spiritual discipline. Solitude is a gift from God, but isolation is a tool of the devil. Right. If he can isolate, if he can cut you from the herd, because he has two the devil has two um two tools, accusation and deception. And if he can cut you from the herd and accuse you and deceive you, you're done. You're toast. But if you can have a community that won't allow you to buy into that, then you've got some connection there, and then that helps a whole bunch. That's a good good move for you to. And that's probably what allowed you to do too, is take get some younger friends that you can mentor a little bit, and there's a mutual relationship there, correct?

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Yeah, yeah, it did, and I started finding just good people that uh but you know, I had to put myself out there and volunteer and do things.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

I become part of