Latest / Join With Me Podcast / Episode 5 - Part Four: The Journey of Rayburn & Donna Hare
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- speaker-0: We are honored that you have chosen to listen to this podcast. Join with me, where the information will be biblical, filled with joy, and very helpful. Stay tuned to the end where you will learn how to communicate with Rayburn and Donna about today's episode. And I'm Donna. speaker-1: I'm Grayburn Hale. This is Join With Me Podcast. Now, hopefully you've been listening. I suppose you could tune in at any point and maybe find your way, but if you haven't, if you go back and listen to f past episodes 'cause we're telling a story, kind of leads us to where we are and that you we hope you find interesting and but I I brought us to a place in the in the North Carolina Mountains called the Wilds that I had had ventured into this college and career retreat, this young lady playing ping pong, and now here I am playing ping pong with her. which very quickly ended because it was time for dinner and and so we were downstairs and so we kind of walked up the stairs together but speaker-0: And we parted ways. And we really although he did tell me as soon as I let him beat me, he did tell me that his name was Rayburn Hare. And I told him, I said, Well my name's Donna Woodle and we parted ways and didn't actually come back together until the next day. speaker-1: The very next day. See, there's there's about three hundred speaker-0: Three hundred and fifty. speaker-1: and fifty kids here, all college career age. And so what they do is they take these three hundred and fifty and they divide into four teams and and then you and speaker-0: On the same team. speaker-1: then you compete and y and yes, so we wound up out here on this big field. speaker-0: It was a soccer. speaker-1: Yeah, h how many there would be on our team? I guess a hundred, close seventy five or so, and walking around, lo and behold, there she is. speaker-0: I was there cheering my team to win. speaker-1: Yeah, and and so we were on the same team. Now you have to understand I I I I certainly was intrigued with this young lady and we kept kinda b bumping in or getting you know, put together or whatever, and speaker-0: But he he did ask me while we were standing there. He said we it's almost time for for lunch, which they have a humongous commissary to eat in cafeteria. Cafeteria and and he said, could we eat together? And I said, sure. Yeah, I don't have anything to lose. speaker-1: Yeah, so we sat down, had a meal together and once again just just kinda casually getting to know each other very me somewhat. speaker-0: But I wanted to tell how I came to the to the wilds. Rayburn mentioned he was from Bob Jones. I was with a of course I was with the quartet and our quartet was not scheduled to sing that weekend and we chose to go to the wilds of North Carolina for this college and career retreat. While we were traveling and the guy that I was playing ping pong with, he was actually a bus driver, while while we were traveling to the wilds, I just remember sitting there and I just said, Father, I I am not going there to to meet any guys. I had been so crazy busy my senior year, especially the the latter part of my senior year. student teaching and singing with the quartet. I wasn't even dating anybody, had no desire to, although I had I had dated some really neat young men. but going to the wilds I just wanted to to really prepare my heart because two weeks later I was gonna be graduating from college and then three days after that our group was leaving for tour. So when Rayburn asked if I would have lunch with him, I it was just a casual thing, but afterwards everybody was going to the Fourth Falls and he said, Would you like to go to the Fourth Falls? And I said, By all means, that was on my bucket list to do that weekend. so we spent the afternoon along with several hundred other kids climbing over rocks, hanging on to branches, because it's not just a casual walk to the Fourth Falls. but it was it was so much fun and just getting to know this young man. and then that evening we were in a service. speaker-1: Yeah, and and this is a port of part of the story that you need to understand that kinda helped me learning about her. being outside, anybody that knows me knows that I very seldom am I ever without chapstick. Ever. And I mean that. I mean for the better part of my life. If I'm without chapstick it's because I've lost it or something. And if I am, then I'm fussing about it. So I had no chapstick. I don't even remember why I didn't. But I'm sure during that day I'm I'm s I'm saying, my goodness, I don't have my chapstick. 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We get to us, we we're gonna have an evening service and and and I'm sitting we're gonna already plan to be together or sit together and so here I am sitting and she comes in and as she comes in she has in a Kleenex in a piece of Kleenex she said, Rayburn, I know this is not chapstick, but here's some Vaseline and maybe that will and and and I I c I cannot tell you I thought my Number one was it a huge help to me at that moment, but that's not the point. The point is, here's a young lady that I learned was thoughtful and caring enough to think about that that I had an issue and she could help. And she did. Now I I once again, I know you think, no big deal. It was a big deal. Because I thought, wow. I mean to tell you, that really made an impression on me. So we we kind of go through this is on a Saturday evening and and of course I I realize that Sunday's coming. We're going different directions and man I just I just didn't I thought, man, here I am. speaker-0: So we made we made plans for Rayburn to come to Winston-Salem two weeks in two weeks the weekend that I graduated from college and spend the weekend with my family. But when I got home from that weekend, I rem my mom was sitting on the front porch and when I got out of the car I went and sat down beside her. And we talked for just a couple of minutes and then I looked at my mom and I said, Mom, I have met the needest guy and she just went no she just rolled her eyes and I said we've made plans for him to come in two weeks so he did come on Saturday my dear friend Janet and her date and Rayburn and I we went to the mountains I fixed a a a meal for all of us and then on Sunday we we went to Renault Gardens and just walked through the gardens and then Rayburn left and three days later I left for tour. I I had given him an itinerary of where our group was and when I would get to a church I would have a letter from Rayburn and I still have all those letters tied up in a pink bow. speaker-1: part of the story that you need to understand. I was in Greenville, she was in Winston Salem. It's only three hours away, but as Donna said, we we you spend some time together. Two things that happened. She fixed a meal for that for us that we went out on a picnic, the four of us, Madonna and her friend and me, and we went on that picnic and she fixed a meal. That I had never had before. And I also realized, because I tell people all the time, my mother was a great cook. So I grew up eating good. And all of a sudden I thought, my goodness, and she can cook. And I don't me I'm not exaggerating. Hundreds of times it still remains one of my favorite meals. But anyway. We're we're in this garden that Donna was talking about, beautiful place, just you know, and and of course back then we had thirty-five millimeter cameras and you know, so I'm taking pictures and and I won't ever forget it. I I said, Donna, let me let me get your picture. And and I of course I put the camera up to take her picture and instinctively there was this low hanging tree or vine. It's a limb. Yeah, limb and Instinctively she took that limb, pulled it down, and when I took that picture, she had that limb just just holding it. And I and I still have that picture, by the way, and I just remember thinking my goodness, that what made her do that? It just showed the tenderness of her. If you'd seen her hold it, it was like she was just just holding it and it was instinctive. It was Not planned or anything like that. She just did it. And and so in a period of a couple weeks I knew she was very caring, very thoughtful, and very tender and loving. A and I know you think that's crazy, but I saw that in her in very quick order. And I knew I I already knew this is a special, special young lady that God has brought me to. And of course, I won't go miss out. I won't miss out on that. speaker-0: And you will have to stay tuned to another episode. to our love story. Our love story is so special and nothing that we want to to rush through to try to keep it under a certain amount of time, but we want you to stay come back and hear the next episode about How God worked in our lives and our hearts as only God could do. speaker-1: So you're hearing a little s story that continues. And hopefully these episodes you'll just continue to listen. You'll want to listen to the next one. And so we're trying to make sense of it. but thank you for listening. Thank you for for just paying attention to who we are. If you ever have questions, please reach out to me or Donna. You can reach us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com. I'm Rayburn Hare. speaker-0: And I'm Donna. speaker-1: And this is Join With Me Podcast. speaker-0: We trust you enjoyed today's sharing from the heart. If you want to learn more, please feel free to contact us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com. Or you can go to our website, joinwithme.life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share with a friend and have a blessed day on purpose.