Father, Thank you for your excellent Word. Thank you, Lord, that that your Word so immensely deep, powerful, and meaningful that it causes us great effort simply to understand those truths that you consider to be of the smallest things that you have to present to us. Every time that we study your Word you show us increasingly more marvelous and incredible wonders. I do not know Lord, but it seems that often times the more that I read a passage, the greater the meaning that comes from it. One might think that it would be the other way around, but your Word is so alive and living and endless. Your Word is always abounding with instruction, truth, grace, and love. We ask you Lord that you would bless us with a greater understanding the bounty of marvelous things that you have to show us in your Word. Bless us now, Father, that we would see and understand our blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through those things that we study your Word today.
Please do not take this as an accusation. I am simply pleading with you to examine your own heart. Please ask yourself, “Would I really want to see Dale fail in his mission? I can understand how that you could wish that I would leave you alone and shut down this Website and delete all of the posts that I have posted, but you know as well as I that such thoughts are not realistic. There really is, in essence, two outcomes to this road that you and I are on. Either God truly has sent me on this quest for you, or I am a nut that has an incurable obsession over you. There is no middle ground.
If I am that nut, I will most certainly come to an unpleasant end. I will fail to get anywhere close to Singapore, and my infamy will live on for several years to come. Who knows how long my Website will continue to stay up and running? If anything, my demise would probably spur some popularity for some time to come, before slowly petering out over time.
More than that, has it ever been said that my demise would be to your benefit? I do not believe that you would feel that way, yet perhaps somehow somewhere there have been whispers of that suggestion in the air.
Would it not be better that my quest for you be a genuine command from God? Even if I were to die in my attempt, it would prove that my love for you is a true and a pure love and that I am a true man of integrity. Is it not better to have a true man of integrity bidding for your soul?
Lenticular Cloud over Harold’s Cross Dublin Ireland, Omnisource5 – 2015
My friend Bee,
I hope that you are beginning to see that this entire enterprise truly is all about you. Is it evident to you that I am not trying to glorify myself? This is all a pretty strange way of going about things, if that was my intent.
Please understand that I have never wanted to cause you stress, anxiety, fear, anger, or any other unpleasant feelings or emotions. I know that many of the things that I have written to you have caused you grief, sorrow, and pain. There are certain things that I knew at the time that I wrote them would be a discomfort to you, but there are other things that I have written where I did not foresee tears in your eyes. However, I have always been careful to be as truthful with you as I could possibly ever be to anyone. I have leaned very heavily upon God to lead me as I write to you, to be certain that I really am being truthful with you.
This is the problem. Often times, the truth can be painful, but it is only by facing up to the truth that we can understand what is wrong and where the deception, the lies, and the subtlety exists in our lives. The truth is a light that reveals the darkness. Without the truth, we are unable to see the darkness in our lives.
In all soberness and sincerity, I have never knowingly allowed myself to say anything to you that I thought would cause you pain unless it was for the specific purpose to help you understand the truth. It is out of love that I have thought to cause you to suffer, so that you might know the truth and to be able to see the darkness and to be free from that darkness. Is it not better that you suffer sorrow and pain for a season in order to discover and to take hold of eternal joy and light, than it is to live in an undisturbed darkness until you finally realize that you will never ever be free from that darkness – a adarkness that continually becomes ever more dark? I have only ever wanted you to be happy and filled with joy, but you will never be able to find true happiness and to live in untethered joy as long as you are living in darkness.
