Hi Joy Wilson

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Ray, I have been one of those casualties several times, ignored because I made people uncomfortable with my depression, addiction, radical deviations from the "Christian norm".  But I also know I'm guilty of feeling God nudge me to help someone else who is hurting, and I didn't because I was busy or didn't want to be bothered, or hoped someone else would intervene.

God doesn't call me to help every hurting person, but for those He nudges me to help, I AM responsible, and there is only a window of time before the opportunity closes.

Here's something my 26-yr-old daughter messaged me today.  I'm humbled and grateful for it, because she and I have been through hell together her entire life. That makes what she wrote especially sweet, because she describes the God she met through me.  I don't know if she wrote this or copied it, but it mirrors what your've stated here.

"If I asked God to get in his car and drive 30 minutes to a random location to come have a drink with me.....just so we could talk.....would he join me at happy hour?  If I asked God to step outside.....so I could end a long day with a cigarette and a soap box.....would he cancel his prior engagements and come sit next to me on a park bench on a rainy day?  I bet he would.....I bet my life he would.....because that's what kind of God I know.....at the end of the day.....I'd like to think you taught me one thing, Mama.....judgement is as evil as any other crime the human race can achieve.....and I'd like to think that understanding that we are all human would benefit anyone.....my best friend would do the same for me.....my true best friend.....you're one of my best friends.....I love you."