So what do you expect my friend?   Is it love that brings friendship?  I for one have been betrayed, and searched my soul to understand.

It is the ‘hurt’ that consumed me that prompted me to search.   I finally decided to look at prayer.   I wanted to know.    I did not know where to begin.   So I thought maybe this Jesus that I hear so much about might be real.

I started to pray…I hurt so badly and the betrayal consumed me.   Where was this Jesus?   How can I know Him.     I started …. Jesus I don’t know you, but everyone says, ‘Jesus’ and

so I am asking…I want to know….

I am going to keep asking  because I want to know who you are.     I heard “I Love You”   I thought I  must be crazy.    Then I  heard again…”I Love You”.    But I don’t know you, I said.    “I know You”  He said.    I sat there.    Then I said…”I hurt”.   He said “I know”.

I said, “you Know”?   Then it was quiet.   I never heard anything more…and then the tears fell.    I thought…somebody knows me and loves me…I am alone and betrayed, and abandoned….then I heard…”I was too.”    “huh”   I said.   I continued to wonder.   Yet my tears kept falling…the hurt kept hurting, and the betrayal lingered.    He then said, “Come to Me.”   I said, ‘I am here.’    He said, “Come to Me you who are weary and I will give you rest”.    I said,” I want that”.   ‘  How do I get that?’     Then I heard …”Ask and You shall receive.”   ‘Okay’, I said, ‘I want you too. ‘  “Show me the way Lord”…I said.     He said, ” I am the way the truth and the life…He who comes to me will never be hungry again.”

Matthew:  7:7-11

7) “Ask, and it will be given you;  seek, and you will find, knock, and it will be opened to you.   8) For everyone who asks receives, and he who seek find, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9) Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?   10) Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?   11) If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”