tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post3438098361738820308..comments2024-03-18T04:20:15.987-04:00Comments on Statement Analysis ®: Amanda Blackburn Murder: Post Crime Behavior Statement Analysis Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13607372649929274491noreply@blogger.comBlogger1755125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-14853054512064945192017-03-06T04:39:23.758-05:002017-03-06T04:39:23.758-05:00I wonder did they have a matching policy on Davey?...I wonder did they have a matching policy on Davey? Even if they did, he can't 'win' here because if he was planning ahead, he'd be thinking it was only for the short-term and a worthy 'alibi' investment to head off suspicion. Whereas fairly, if they were both heavily insured, he could have just been acting responsibly. Davey and acting responsibly don't go together too well, though - it"s more likely he'd think Amanda's 'ilife nsurance' in the event of his death involved her going home to her parents with the baby - well, he said as much. Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-4127753257311478902017-03-05T22:35:05.993-05:002017-03-05T22:35:05.993-05:00Davey has a strong need to persuade that it was on...Davey has a strong need to persuade that it was only because of Dave Ramsey that he had a hefty life insurance policy on Amanda.<br /><br />How many suggestions to have "conversations, you don't want to have" were broadcast on Dave Ramsey's radio show prior to October 2014 or at Legacy Journey LIVE! events?<br /><br />Did Davey tweet about attending the Legacy Journey LIVE! event in Indianapolis in April 2014?<br /><br />Weston was born in July 2014.<br /><br />The Legacy Journey book was published in October 2014.Bobcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-1269610645230506572017-03-05T19:25:46.753-05:002017-03-05T19:25:46.753-05:00Meg staying and taking up a bedroom might have cau...Meg staying and taking up a bedroom might have caused extra tension if Amanda didn't want to sleep with Davey but was left without a choice. Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-37267026027681156402017-03-05T19:22:52.881-05:002017-03-05T19:22:52.881-05:00Bobcat - I wonder if they always or sometimes slep...Bobcat - I wonder if they always or sometimes slept in different rooms - upstairs nursery a bit distant from downstairs master bedroom - maybe one or another slept in the guest room to be nearer him, or they both slept in the guest room? I vaguely recall some earlier posts about them having separate rooms, can't recall if that was only speculation or due to something Davey had said. Maybe round the time he decided to introduce the night before (or of?) Amanda's murder, with his account of Amanda laughing as she watched silly clips on Instagram when he was trying to sleep.<br /><br />Trudy - He wouldn't have been drinking all that Starbucks coffee he's addicted to either - that would soon add up. Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-21104483914152667762017-03-05T15:37:54.345-05:002017-03-05T15:37:54.345-05:00Either Davey's lying to Dave Ramsey or he'...Either Davey's lying to Dave Ramsey or he's lying on his blog. Davey has some nerve saying he's on baby step 8 overnight, (as if he was dutifully following Dave Ramsey's advice) when he obviously hadn't even taken baby step 1. <br /><br />If he had taken baby step 1 - cut all and any unnecessary spending - Davey wouldn't have been at the gym that morning.Trudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-27678148999130487262017-03-05T12:07:02.729-05:002017-03-05T12:07:02.729-05:00HJ,
I stand corrected.
After studying the roofli...HJ,<br /><br />I stand corrected.<br /><br />After studying the roofline photos and windows, it appears that Weston's bedroom WAS upstairs, with a window overlooking the backyard.Bobcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-18562478792829170812017-03-05T05:22:26.982-05:002017-03-05T05:22:26.982-05:00Who did he say found the stash of letters from Ama...Who did he say found the stash of letters from Amanda while he was clearing out his garage? That's not quite clear. Well, fancy. I bet they are all very adoring letters, explaining lots of stuff and clearing up all sorts of 'misunderstandings' people might have about his relationship with Amanda, and his lack of godliness. God will have laid it on Amanda's heart to do the right thing for Davey, just in case she was called to sacrifice her life to grow his church, and people might grow suspicious. <br /><br />Do people fill books with letters to their spouse while their living in the same house? I suppose they might if they felt unable to have a conversation, in which case the letters might not be all that publishable, which surely these will be as he is already advertising their alleged existence.<br /><br />---<br />Thou shall not bear false witness. I bet Amanda had a lot of that to contend with in life, from Davey. <br /><br />Why do I not believe Amanda left a book full of letters written 'directly' to Davey? It might be because he doesn't actually say Amanda wrote them - just that 'it is filled with letters written directly to me'. Plus, how very convenient. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-11813034528129855722017-03-05T04:57:21.950-05:002017-03-05T04:57:21.950-05:00Maybe that happened at Resonate, too, so now they ...Maybe that happened at Resonate, too, so now they have a 'mobile' church. Like a mobile dog grooming parlour, or hairdresser - can't afford to rent premises? Maybe seeing that all wrong - perhaps the mobile Church is in addition to renting the school auditorium, and an extension of Davey's flourishing megachurch, rather than a downgrade. <br /><br />Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-76969347459456403072017-03-05T04:51:37.307-05:002017-03-05T04:51:37.307-05:00Oh, yes - definitely full stairs - I had forgotten...Oh, yes - definitely full stairs - I had forgotten about the balcony - now recalling how Davey said Jesus said he was up there watching Amanda's murder. (Davey making Jesus so unpleasantly voyeuristic.). <br /><br />So, are you thinking Weston's room, as well as the master bedroom, was downstairs - yet Weston was 'upstairs' in his crib? I couldn't be sure from the photos that the nursery is upstairs. The laundry basket (?) visible in the downstairs pic is the one in master bedroom, so master bedroom is downstairs. Pity there is not a floor plan. <br /><br />----<br /><br />On a lighter (or heavier) note:<br /><br />http://babylonbee.com/news/megachurch-stage-collapses-pastors-massive-ego/<br /><br />Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-3161357429464493852017-03-05T00:14:43.365-05:002017-03-05T00:14:43.365-05:00Still respecting her privacy I see...@#$%&!!!
...Still respecting her privacy I see...@#$%&!!!<br /><br />Regarding the layout of the house<br />http://www.estately.com/listings/info/2812-sunnyfield-court<br /><br />Photo # 5. You can see down the hall to the master bedroom.<br />Photos 9 & 10 show the master bedroom with empty frame above the bed.<br />Photo 14 shows the nursery without the crib. It's on the main floor.<br />Photo 16 shows the upstairs guest room. The ceiling is angled along the roof line on both sides.<br />Photo 18 shows the staircase down to the front door and living room landing.<br />Photo 19 shows the balcony view. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-22446028297785775602017-03-04T22:06:24.582-05:002017-03-04T22:06:24.582-05:00daveyblackburnJust found another one of @amandagbl...<br /><br />daveyblackburnJust found another one of @amandagblackburn's journal's as I was cleaning out my garage . . . All of her journals I've read up to this point are prayer journals directed at Jesus . . . This one is filled up with letters written directly to me . . . It may take me a while to get through this one 😢<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-82291071500078563232017-03-04T20:27:36.881-05:002017-03-04T20:27:36.881-05:00How many underprivileged and at-risk kids do you t...How many underprivileged and at-risk kids do you think will be "intersected/" by the Financial Athiest series? Good work Davey.Trudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-71684521811141128032017-03-04T20:24:18.753-05:002017-03-04T20:24:18.753-05:00FWIW, I thought the bedrooms were upstairs and the...FWIW, I thought the bedrooms were upstairs and the living areas downstairs, but I don't know. The acoustics must have been pretty good (bad?) if you could hear a toddler cooing softly, behind a closed door, from downstairs, over the ragged breathing of his dying mother.<br /><br />It's very important to crazy Davey that everyone knows that the thugs didn't go into Weston's room, and that Weston slept through the screams, overturned furniture, and gunshots that murdered his mother - even though crazy Davey has NO WAY of knowing.<br />Trudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-68732097965850368462017-03-04T20:11:14.625-05:002017-03-04T20:11:14.625-05:00Wow. Great posts. There's lots to think abou...Wow. Great posts. There's lots to think about here. So basically the only piece of advice from Dave Ramsey, that Davey "anything he says, I do" Blackburn followed before murdering Amanda was to get a massive life insurance policy on her? It's fascinating to watch a narcissitic sociopath at work, drawing in other people to publicly (and personally) support their machinations, attempting to manipulate perception and avoid detection. <br /><br />RE: I remember that conversation popping into my head, and knowing then that I could walk back into this calling guilt-free, and be able to reach a city who is hopeless and who is hurting and is looking for the hope to stand on in the midst of their trials. Knowing that we could intersect a generation of these underprivileged and at-risk kids. The same kinds of kids that, that killed Amanda. That we could intersect them now because, and I can walk into that guilt-free because of this organization <br /><br />If crazy Davey had marched all bravehearty into "intersecting (does he mean intercepting?) a generation of underprivileged and at risk kids, the same kinds of kids that killed Amanda", by doing ANYTHING at all, I doubt I would be here today.<br /><br /> Crazy Davey said he "prayed for a platform" and he was given one. Gang violence. If the "home invasion" story was true, he would have used/still be using THAT platform. And how powerful it would be. But he didn't, doesn't and won't. He can't.<br /><br />The closest he has come to underprivileged and at risk kids is probably seeing them in the street from his taxi, on the way to the airport.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Trudynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-12759656189036963082017-03-04T17:42:24.056-05:002017-03-04T17:42:24.056-05:00I suppose where the nursery is depends on the arra...I suppose where the nursery is depends on the arrangement of the house - I can't recall if there was there a full flight of stairs to an upstairs in addition to the few steps, or if it had just those few steps from the sitting room up to the bedrooms, so no real 'upstairs', as such, more one level with a raised hallway/landing. I suppose, if Weston was 'above her', then there was a real upstairs. IDK, though - maybe the layout of the house and how they variously describe it might account for the confusion. Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-18154412310656715162017-03-04T15:26:33.786-05:002017-03-04T15:26:33.786-05:00When talking about the event, Davey says two thing...When talking about the event, Davey says two things:<br /><br />10/8/2016 he was up in his room, in his crib still<br />10/23/16 I grabbed Weston upstairs, who was, uh, up in his crib<br /><br />"up" does not mean 'upstairs'. It means awake, probably standing up.<br /><br />When writing about what he "remembered", he writes:<br />10/17/2016 I remembered how that morning Weston’s door was still shut. I remembered I could hear Weston's soft coos from his room upstairs.<br /><br />There are two other reports that say Weston was in his bedroom down the hall.<br /><br />Only Davey's father says on 11/22/2015 "I have no idea, how hard Amanda fought; but I know she was fighting because, little Weston was right upstairs above her, and she was not going to give up easy."<br /><br />-----------------<br /><br />Imo, it makes no sense that Weston's bedroom would be upstairs at his age. Nurseries are generally in close proximity to their caregivers' bedroom, not separated by a flight of stairs.<br /><br />That explains why Davey is so insistent that Amanda died at the perfect time in Weston's life because he will not remember it, and the constant sensitivity whenever he speaks about Weston.Bobcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-47869850643439583782017-03-04T09:19:59.741-05:002017-03-04T09:19:59.741-05:00Is 'upstairs' an additional unnecessary wo...Is 'upstairs' an additional unnecessary word? I think upstairs might be sensitive - unless they also had a crib downstairs, and he's distinguishing between two cribs. If there was just one crib, one would assume it was in Weston's room, upstairs - yet often he has said 'upstairs'. <br /><br />I still think Weston may have witnessed the attack - there is some reason why he did not make mention of checking on Weston or where he was in those early days - he did not want to speak about him. What a person leaves out of an account is as of much interest as what he or she says. <br /><br />---<br /><br />All that 'my kid is cuter than your kid' and how adorable he is, here's a photo, or the toddler himself, which Davey keeps saying and doing before he goes on to make fun of and sometimes complain about Weston - is that need to persuade that he loves Weston?<br /><br /><br />Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-78910146336165720722017-03-04T01:54:29.669-05:002017-03-04T01:54:29.669-05:00Question for parents of infants & toddlers:
W...Question for parents of infants & toddlers:<br /><br />When your child was small, where was their bedroom/nursery in proximity to your bedroom?<br />Was it on the same level of your home?<br />Was it on another level, separated by a full flight of stairs?<br />Was it on a level with a dangerous (for a toddler) balcony and staircase?<br /><br />News Report, Interview with friend (11/18/2015) <br />The couple's infant son was <b>in the next room</b> when it happened.<br /><br />Davey's father states (11/22/2015) "I have no idea, how hard Amanda fought; but I know she was fighting because, little Weston was <b>right upstairs above her</b>, and she was not going to give up easy."<br /><br />(11/30/2015) This family friend also said on this page that the baby <b>was crying</b> when the husband entered the house, and the dog was in its kennel.<br /><br />(10/8/2016) "I, came home from the gym, and my, um, my greatest nightmare was, was <b>sitting right there</b>, in front of me. I walked into my house, and I found, uh my beautiful wife Amanda Grace, lying on the floor face down in a pool of blood. She was, 13 weeks pregnant. I thought maybe something had horrific happened to the baby, and that, if we got her to the hospital she would joo be just fine, uh my two-, at the time fifteen month old boy, now he’s two, two years, two months he was <b>up in his room, in his crib still, completely untouched, completely unharmed.</b>"<br /><br />(10/17/2016) "I remembered how that morning Weston’s door was still shut. I remembered sitting downstairs on the floor of our living room pleading with Amanda to stay with me as she struggled for every breath. I remembered I could hear Weston's soft coos from his room upstairs."<br /><br />DB later states: (10/23/2016) "They actually got there in, a very quick amount of time, they got her, um, s-, s-, settled into the, ambulance, and then I grabbed Weston upstairs, who was, uh, <b>up in his crib</b>, and we followed, the ambulance to the hospital"<br /><br />DB Speaker Bio: (2017) Thankfully, their fifteen-month-old son was left <b>unharmed in his bedroom just down the hall</b>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-24703933594321161402017-03-04T01:38:11.941-05:002017-03-04T01:38:11.941-05:00flightful,
Almost, ALMOST four years to the day.....flightful,<br /><br />Almost, ALMOST four years to the day...<br /><br />DB & Amanda moved to Indy on 11/11/2011. I know I've read it elsewhere but it is also written in DB's speaker bio:<br /><br />"On November 11, 2011, Davey and Amanda Blackburn loaded up a moving truck and drove from Greenville, South Carolina to Indianapolis, Indiana to start Resonate Church, a place they hoped would bring new life to a city and reach people who didn’t know God."<br />http://ambassadorspeakers.com/ACP/speakers.aspx?name=DAVEY%20BLACKBURN&speaker=5764#sthash.qVdne3OJ.dpuf<br /><br />Here's where it gets interesting...<br /><br />DB 9/4/2016 (Talking about the evening of 11/9/2015) "<i>And that night we went to bed, and, she was watching, dumb finds on Instagram, like, laughing hysteric, I’ve never heard, like jus, gut laughing, you know? And, and I was like, would you, I’m trying to go to bed, I’m, would you stop laughing? You know? Like I’m trying to sleep, I’m trying to read so I can fall asleep, and she’s like “hahaha” like I’ve never seen her more carefree and happy, but listen, I was annoyed with it. Know why? I didn’t know that I only had 3694 days. <b>I thought I had another day</b>…to appreciate the annoying things.</i>"<br /><br />I wonder if Davey's grand plan was for Amanda to be killed exactly four years to the day on 11/11/2015. He thought he had another day... but for some reason, the crime spree was moved up to 11/10, although, luckily for DB, Amanda was "still" breathing until she was <b>ceremoniously</b> declared brain dead on 11/11 (four years to the day). Resonate shared the news followed by #nothingiswasted asap, even though Amanda was not declared <b>officially</b> dead until 11/12/2015. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-33484356360647351572017-03-03T22:14:14.000-05:002017-03-03T22:14:14.000-05:00From Foolsfeedonfolly post March 3 1:59am (very ni...From Foolsfeedonfolly post March 3 1:59am (very nice timeline by the way Fools !) - <br /><br /><i>....Amanda's praying about Davey's need to "escape". On <b>November 10, 2011 </b>Davey & Amanda move to Indianapolis... </i><br /><br />NOVEMBER 10th. Could it have been scripted any better? Four years to the day Davey and Amanda moved, Amanda gave her life to see Indy changed. Davey did mention "four years to the day" in at least one of his appearances - similar to how he mentioned the dots the Lord is connecting here with respect to the getaway Sebring car being found on Amanda's ex-youth pastor's street (which if I remember correctly wasn't exactly true - didn't Bobcat or someone find out that the ex-youth pastor actually lives around the corner from that street?<br /><br />If Amanda was listening to THAT story (exaggeration, always the need to make an even better story) about where the car was found, she would gently say "that's not true" - just as she did in the Love Song appearance week 6 where Davey was talking about the couple who had left Resonate and was miserable and wanted to come back. <br /><br />Back to my question about November 10th - I wonder how long the Tuesday morning phone calls had been going on with Kenneth Wagner - I wonder if Tuesday was chosen for the conversations because November 10th would fall on a Tuesday (in other words, if November 10th - the appointed day for Amanda's departure - would have fallen on Friday, maybe the weekly alibi conversations would have been on Fridays? )<br /><br />November 10th is just TOO neat of a coincidence - as if there weren't already enough of them. flightfulbirdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-18699847075510058352017-03-03T13:19:14.621-05:002017-03-03T13:19:14.621-05:00Yes - it was all so 'convenient'. He'...Yes - it was all so 'convenient'. He's still ended up with a traveling salvation show, tho', so it looks as if at some point he might have to accept that he's not cut out to be a mega-church pastor. Maybe he's thinking to sink all his new-found wealth into a church building - he could live in it, all of a sacrifice. <br /><br />I don't believe he asked Amanda what she would like him to do if she died - he wouldn't have cared what she wanted, Davey only does what Davey wants to do. Didn't he say early on that Amanda had wanted Weston to play basketball, but he was going to be a baseball player, like Davey. I think he could not care less about what Amanda wanted for Weston, or in time, about what Weston might want for his own life.<br /><br />Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-61001870810384125792017-03-03T12:03:54.696-05:002017-03-03T12:03:54.696-05:00Part 2 of 2
Baby Step 3: Finish funding the Emer...<br />Part 2 of 2<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 3</b>: <b>Finish</b> funding the Emergency Fund (put 3-6 months of your income in an Emergency Fund)<br />- When did Davey repay their Car Savings and Emergency Funds?<br />Davey had a well-documented social media history of living large prior to Amanda's murder, with a marked increase in traveling, vacations, sporting events, and leisure activities.<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 4</b>: Invest 15% of Your Income in Retirement<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 5</b> is College Funding (for all those people who donated to Weston's College Fund and bought "Amanda-designed" Resonate T-Shirts to help Weston)<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 6</b>: Pay off the Mortgage (that $355,000 home purchased March 2, 2104- remodeled and interior designed decorated)<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 7</b>: Build Wealth Like Crazy (this step consists of two parts)<br /><br />Part 1: Investments (Have Fun, Invest, and Give)<br /><br />Part 2: The Pinnacle (live off 8% percent <b>of your nest egg</b>, while your wealth increases) **DISCLAIMER: Ideally in Dave Ramsey's financial planning materials, you should be using some of your money to give charitably at each step along the way (10%-15% recommended to start, it should increase as your net worth increases)<br /><br />SUMMING UP: Between soliciting donations "for Davey and Weston", Resonate T-Shirt sales, Amanda's Life Insurance Policy, well-networked media interviews, and paid Speaking Engagements...if Davey is to be believed...He's gotten noticeably wealthy from the death of his pregnant, young wife...while his church continues to struggle financially. His standard of living has increased significantly. Either Davey's lying to Dave Ramsey or he's profited greatly from the death of his pregnant wife...during a season when they financially "floated" a failing Resonate Church by him emptying a number of their personal accounts with no/little financial return and Amanda unexpectedly becoming pregnant . IF Davey's to be believed and IF they were following Dave Ramsey's principles, judging by the Retirement Accounts and Emergency Fund, they would have floated Resonate somewhere around the neighborhood of $10,000-$50,000 from Dec. 2014-Aug.2015 and despite Davey's manic sermons/merchandising/marketing, it was still a money pit (except now, it was saddled with a bigger rent payment to Northview Middle School)...Amanda's pregnancy would likely have been a breaking point (All of Davey's self-professed personal triggers). Thinking about the manner in which Davey "announced" Amanda's pregnancy- a slip of the tongue in a sermon on shooting your worries and financial pressures, a quick coarse joking "recovery effort" to play it off as though he meant to say it. <br /><br />Does that prove Davey hired someone to/ subtly "suggested" that someone kill Amanda? No, but there are an amazing amount of convenient coincidences involving timing and a lot of "problems" were neatly solved for Davey "overnight". Foolsfeedonfollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-24506858299264677762017-03-03T11:59:08.302-05:002017-03-03T11:59:08.302-05:00Long Post Alert- Feel free to skip.
Part 1 of 2
R...Long Post Alert- Feel free to skip.<br /><br />Part 1 of 2<br />RE: Bobcat March 3, 2014 @ 3:46 AM- Thank you for posting this. We’re implemented Dave Ramsey’s financial planning in our household for a number of years.<br /><br />Davey (speaking to Dave Ramsey)<br />@ 9:15 Mark: "Fortunately, because we set everything up, I’m now on baby step 8, overnight."<br />______________________________________<br /><br />O.K., for those of your who may not be familiar with Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace teaching, this is a HUGE deal. Dave Ramsey defines 7 Baby Steps to Financial Freedom/Financial Peace. Baby Step 7 is broken down into 2 parts, which may be why Davey says Baby Step 8.<br /><br />Davey says he's on Baby Step 8 <b>overnight</b>. That means he's accomplished these things <b>overnight</b>:<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 1</b>: Involves Gazelle Focus (Cut any and all unnecessary spending. You can't stop financial hemorraghing with a bandaid; you use a tourniquet)<br /><br />- Remember Davey told us that at Christmas 2014 and six weeks into 2015, he emptied their Car Savings account and <b>all</b>their Retirement Account<b>s</b>. He also told us that they were struggling after Weston was born, paying the hospital bills <b>out of their Emergency Fund</b>. <br />- So, Davey says seven months into 2015, they saw no financial return for their "sacrifice". Did anyone see Davey make major changes in his/their lifestyle from Christmas 2014-October 2015, consistent with that "Gazelle Focus" principle? <br />- How about from November 2015-June 2016, any changes in lifestyle consistent with losing a spouse? An income-contributing spouse?<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 1</b>: Goal $1,000 in Savings<br /><br /><b>Baby Step 2</b>: Pay off ALL your debt<br />Any vehicles, loans (consolidations), credit cards, and ALL medical bills and funeral expenses pertaining to AmandaFoolsfeedonfollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-76407327946555909242017-03-03T11:16:30.820-05:002017-03-03T11:16:30.820-05:00'Knowing that we could intersect a generation ...'Knowing that we could intersect a generation of these underprivileged and at-risk kids. The same kinds of kids that, that killed Amanda.'<br /><br />----<br /><br />So' Amanda was killed by underprivileged and at-risk kids? <br /><br />I don't think I would be describing my wife's alleged murderers in those terms if I were Davey. <br /><br />---<br /><br />Is 'intersect' interesting there? Like the paths crossed maybe, between Davey and the 'kids', or the path of their crime crossed with that of Amanda's murder? They were somehow 'intersected' to be implicated in the murder, or possibly to commit it, in the course of committing another crime? IDK - I'm probably too convinced they didn't do it. <br />Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164794708270892518.post-28753059736344907982017-03-03T11:06:35.802-05:002017-03-03T11:06:35.802-05:00Fools - your post illustrates really well how Dav...Fools - your post illustrates really well how Davey and Amanda were under enormous pressure financially to succeed in growing his hoped-for megachurch. So irresponsible to sink everything into his church, IMO - it must have been a very stressful time for Amanda. I doubt there was much in their retirement accounts, both being so young - still, seems rash to have wasted whatever peace of mind that might have provided for any emergencies or unexpected expenses - what a waste it must have seemed when months later their sacrifice had not produced the anticipated reward - Davey must have been increasingly desperate as he pored over Levi Lusko's tragedy and how it has benefited his ministry. I expect Amanda was desperately worried and afraid in the weeks and months leading up to the time she was murdered.<br />Hey Judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05118508358051764200noreply@blogger.com