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REX, I JUST FOUND A VIDEO OF A LESSON YOU GAVE ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO. I WAS IN LISBON AT THE TIME AND MY MOM TAPED IT FOR ME. I HAD ASKED HER IF SHE COULD HAVE GOT A LESSON OF JEFF, WELL YOU KNOW WHO? WHAT CAN I SAY, BUT I WAS CRYING TEARS OF JOY AND LOSS AND INSPIRATION. JUST HEAR YOUR VOICE MAKES MY SPIRIT ACHE FOR THE DAYS WHEN I WAS SITTING AT YOUR FEET LEARNING ABOUT JESUS. IT MADE ME REMEMBER ALL I WANTED TO BE. THE GOALS THAT I SET IN MY HEART, GOALS THAT CAME FROM LISTENING TO A FUNNY, TALENTED YOUNG MAN, WHO LOVED AND CARED FOR A CHUBBY LOST GIRL FROM VENTURA. OH, HOW I MISS STUDYING WITH YOU. I MISS THE TNT'S. I MISS THE SINGING, JUST SONGS FROM THE SCRIPTURES. WE WOULD SING FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR OR SO, JUST FROM THE WORD. YOUR GIFT OF LOVE AND KINDNESS, GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO GO TO AIM, REMEMBER, "THINK AIM"? THANK YOU, AGAIN FOR BELIEVING IN ME. I FOUND MY EDDIE, AND WE HAVE 3 STRONG CHRISTIAN MEN GROWING UP, IN THIS CRAZY SINFUL WORLD. I WISH THAT THEY COULD HAVE A REX, LIKE I DID. I WATCHED THE MOVIE "BRAVE HEART". THERE IS THIS AMAZING MOMENT WHEN THEY ARE FACING UNBELIEVABLE ODDS IN ONE OF THE BATTLE SCENES. HE TELLS THEM, IN ONLY THE WAY MEL GIBSON CAN DO, "WE CAN DIE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM OR WE CAN GO HOME NEVER TO BE FREE AND LIVE LIVES OF SLAVES AND OUR CHILDREN OUR FAMILIES WILL CONTINUE TO SUFFER, IF WE DON'T STAY AND FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM NOW, THEN WHEN?" MUCH AS WE NEED TO STAND AND FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM, WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF THOSE AROUND US. IT WAS AN AMAZING MOVIE, THE T.V. VERSION. I NEVER WATCH MOVIES, ESPECIALLY R RATED MOVIES, UNTIL THEY COME ON TO T.V.

SO, IF NOT TODAY THEN WHEN. THANK YOU FOR BEING MY "BRAVE HEART." I WILL CHERISH AND PRAISE GOD FOR THE TIME I GOT TO SPEND WITH SOME ONE AS BLESSED AND GIFTED AS YOU ARE, IN YOUR WAY OF SHARING JESUS.

YOU ARE IN MY HEART AND IN MY THOUGHTS EVERY DAY. I CANNOT EVEN SING CERTAIN SONGS, LIKE, "I STAND AMAZED", BECAUSE YOU TAUGHT THAT SONG TO EDDIE AND I WHEN YOU CAME TO LISBON. I REMEMBER YOU TELLING THE MEN TO BARE DOWN, TO BELT IT OUT. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL BEYOND, WELL YOU KNOW. I MISS YOU WITH ALL OF MY SOUL. I WISH I HAD SOMEONE LIKE YOU HERE, TO SHARE THE WORD, TO SHARE JESUS, LIKE YOU SHARE JESUS. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ON VIDEO OR DVD THAT I COULD BUY???? LET ME KNOW. I LISTEN TO YOU ON YOU WEB SIGHT. BUT i WANT THE YOUNG PEOPLE AT MY CHURCH TO SEE YOU IN ACTION.

MUCH LOVE, IN OUR LORD AND SAVIOR,CINDY EWALD AND ALL HER GOOD MEN, JIMMY 18, MARSHALL15, MATTHEW 16, BENJAMIN 8, AND OF COURSE, OLD, OLD, OLD, EDDIE, HE IS ALMOST 50,YIKES! ALMOST AS OLD AS YOU!

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