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Check it out…I know someone famous!

Dino Rizzo was the Youth Pastor at Crossfire Youth Ministry at the Bible College Ernie and I went to. I was a part of the inner city bus ministry and worship team at Crossfire for 2 years. He now pastors Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge. I haven’t heard anything about him and DeLynn (his wife) since I left school. It’s so cool to see people you started out with in ministry years later still going strong.

Anyway, LifeChurch.tv interviewed him about his ministry. Check it out!

i took my christmas tree down.

most of you who know me well will smile warmly to yourself, chuckle and say good for her.

for those of you who are shocked by my little confession… welcome to my world. be careful… it’s easy to get lost in here.

Today I have been cleaning of my desktop at home. I stumbled on this poem I wrote during the Legacy series. I totally forgot about it. I remember I wrote it based on a scripture in Isaiah, but now I don’t know where it is or what it says. I recall more about the commentary I read about it. It painted a very clear picture to me of my salvation. God had His back to me but only a breath away…just a millimeter, but I couldn’t see Him because it was so dark. When I asked Him to turn around He turned instantly, quickly…flooding light all around me and striking down, violently and instantly everything I now saw in the light that would seek destroy me. It was like a father protecting His child or a husband defending his bride. It was fast, decided and motivated by pure passion. It was an intense, vivid and awesome depiction of my salvation. I don’t think I will ever forget it. So, anyway… I wrote this poem, which at the time I didn’t like, of course, cause I never like them at first – - plus, it seemed a little dark to me at the time. Now I read it again and I do like it… because it made me remember. I don’t have a great title for it so I called it, Legacy. Pastor B, maybe you can help me remember which scripture it was…

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so close
a millimeter a vast gulf to be crossed
scrim thick as smoke a choking black sludge
darkness threatens to subjugate destiny
only truth can subvert

turn around
melt this tarred filth with your light
rend these barriers i’ve pinned in place
blind with ignorance and repulsive pride
all senses fail save my will
only grace can wash clean

trample down
in swift and violent wrath
terrorize and maim this devourer
to torment and pain me no more
incinerate into oblivion the memory of them
set your creation free

remember not
my soulish past
recall no more my shame
see me only perfect
passion ablaze beyond the scope of emotion
speak over me peace, rest and prosperity

show me
a close and kindred soul
entrenched in humanity’s filth
show them how to remove the veil
that will cause you to
turn around
and trample down
and recall no more their shame
that you could set them free
and speak over them
passion, peace, rest and prosperity

everyone, i mean everyone needs to go buy their ticket to go see seasons. really, i’m not kidding. go do it now. you will feel left out of every conversation talking about how great it was if you don’t. go….. yes, now. here.