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Ray Hayes Part 6
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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.
Two different board of directors and I p become partner and I started making these friends that I didn't have before. Right. Okay, and people that that uh you know, and I was sitting the other day with a in the office and was doing some work with a a young lady and she said, You know, I can't believe I've lived here all these years and don't know you. You know, and it sort of made me feel good. Yeah. In a way. And I said but we talked and she said, you know, we we just talking about life and talking about town, talking about things, and and I I don't know. I d I just think but you gotta put yourself out there to do that.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm. You do.
SPEAKER_00And you got to to make friends, yeah. And to and to be there and to contact and talk to them and be there for them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_00I don't and some people choose an isolated life and then you know, they they die all alone. Yeah. Okay, that's just the truth and the end of it. And if it's a life you want to live, then baby have at her. Yeah. You know, that's the way I look at it. Not for me, but yeah. I I'm just not uh I I don't know. I don't know. All right, when you think about this, about your faith, what are some turning points or what are some things along the way that really have challenged you that cause you to look deeper at your walk with God when you think about that? And I know that's a big question, okay? But when you look at your life and you think, you know, these are some things that really made me look deep into myself in this relationship, not the relationship everybody else has seen, but the real relationship of me and the Lord. See, I believe in a church and I shared this with the church. I said, My relationship with God is different than me being a pastor. That's me and him. Okay, and that's what when the lights are out and things are dark, that's me and him. And uh, you know, uh I've had people tell me, said I feel I had a guy tell me a while back, he said, I feel like nobody loves you. And I said, I don't know anybody that does. I've never known nobody said they loved you. I mean, what am I gonna lie to you and say, well, oh no, baby, but somebody no. Yeah, if you choose that life, and so this relationship is personal between us and the Lord, yeah that we look at and we examine and we think about. But there's points in our life, there's hinge points.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And some points called Kairos moments when God and earth cross. Right. You know, these big cross and I guess the first uh the first one would probably be salvation at eight years old. Right. Uh but um was in a very legalistic system. And what happens in a legalistic system is you will go one or two ways. You'll go straight up Hellion. I don't want nothing to do with God or the church, and you go out there and you're a Hellion, or you become a choir boy and you do everything right, but you're trying to earn salvation, earn love, you know, and and that type of thing. And both people really have a distorted view of God. Now, the Hellion, you know, okay. He's out there doing, okay, we we got him. The dangerous part about where I was at was the people in the church were accepting me and applauded me, but I still had a distorted view of God. To the point that I went to a hotel, checked in for two days, fasted, and said, God, I'm gonna know you love me when I get out of here, or I'm going to hell and I'm gonna have a hell of a time getting there. I mean the goody two shoes that's coming off, that's that's where it led to. Okay, so that's one episode which he started the conversation there and and I left there knowing that I was loved, but I still had a lot of baggage. It wasn't long after that my son was born. And my son didn't sleep for nine months. In fact, we had a time in our life where Angela and I had never three months, we hadn't slept either one of us more than two hours at any given time. And it's your first one, so you think this is it, this is the way we're this is life forever. It's two thirty in the morning one night. I'm holding him. I finally got him to sleep. We had three channels for you kids out there. We had three channels. They signed off at 12 o'clock, and I was looking at that poultry guy, you know, static. Yeah. Didn't want to cut it off because if I wake him up, we start this dance again, right? I got to get up at 5 30, it's two thirty. So my plan is to just lay back in the recliner, hold him, and and ride out of get as much three hours as I can get. Hope he hope he stays down. And I'm looking at my front door and something just went through my mind that if somebody came through that door to hurt this kid, I'd kill him or they'd kill me, but it they're not getting the kit. Right.