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Here to learn and occasionally contribute, but for now I'm just reading some past posts going back years.  It's amazing how many "light bulbs" have already gone off for me on many levels since reading what I have here already!  I've been lurking for a couple of years here -- but only very sporadically.  I tried to "join" a few times, but could never get my log-in to work over a period of about a year or more!  Only now -- with the new format -- was I able to register and actually get into the site successfully under a screen name and password.  (To say I'm a bit slow technology-wise would be a huge understatement.)  : )

A brief "bio" ... I was involved in da way from 1977 through about 1992 or so (witnessed to by wows, Jim Baker, Bob Darnell and a gal named Annie in Mt. Vernon, NY in June of '77); went wow twice and graduated 11th Corps; first assignment was Brit Lynn's secretary for the Limb of West Virginia; next year was Twig coordinator and (conveniently) slave labor for Way Home leader and perv Area Coordinator Alan Licht in Yonkers, NY; extricated self from there one year later by moving to NYC for a new job; occasionally attended "way offshoot" events/fellowships there until about '92 or so, at which point I called it quits on nearly anything to do with TWI or any of its offshoots.  I reached that point of walking away after a rather dramatic (and I think Spirit inspired) moment after a chance meeting on a cross-town bus in NYC -- where I got "witnessed to" by some wide-eyed-with-wonder Church of Christ "disciples."  They invited me to their home fellowship on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that night.  As I listened to them on the bus, I had a HUGE "ah-ha" moment:  I realized that THEY were ME 15 years earlier when I was doing exactly what they were doing -- "witnessing" to others with that same wide-eyed, zealous wonder!  When I got off the bus a few minutes later, I was in deep thought. I walked up the two flights of steps to my little studio apartment in a lovely brownstone just a half a block from Central Park.  I sat down at my kitchen table, opened my Bible to the gospels, and asked Jesus (out loud!) to be the only one I'd ever listen to again.  I read only the Gospels and Psalms for the next several months -- asking only that Jesus -- if he were REAL -- would reveal who he was to me.  It really was a beautiful epiphany -- in that I figured if this Christianity thing was really true -- than certainly The One who began it all would and could illuminate me.  I've never regretted that choice.  There were a few years in there when I succumbed to the propaganda that we MUST be in some sort of "congregation" and so I church-shopped for a while (with some hilarious results along the way!) ... but I always came back to the exact place I was on that day in Manhattan when I decided to leave Wayville and get back in touch with the Jesus Who'd shown me who he was years earlier -- when I was just 14 years old!  ; )

Thanks for reading this ... I look forward to getting to know some of youz guys here in the days ahead. 

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