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V.I.S.T.O.

Victorious In Struggles To Overcome

About Me

..I am a Loan Officer at Countrywide Home Loans and am passionate about helping people acheive their dreams, homebuying included. If you are interested in buying a home, but are not sure how much you qualify for, call me directly at 206-427-7764. I am also the High School Youth Pastor at Horizon Foursquare Church near Seattle Center and am dedicated to helping young people overcome all things through Christ who strentghens them. Check out Set Apart Saturdays- late night open gym off Holman Rd in Ballard 2nd and 4th Saturday. I graduated form the University of Washington in June of 2005 with a double major in American Etnhic Studies and Comparitive History of Ideas. My realtionship with God is number one, Family and friends are very important to me and poetry/spoken word are my passion... be on the look out for a music page with some of my stuff...late at night, another verse, but the truth to my mind is what breaks the curse, so close your eyes and know that you carry that answer on the daily in practical ways like the chapstick in your purse, so be the first to part the clouds, because that sun aint gone change, sometimes the rain exists only because we aint making moves, choose the rays, and they can penetrate whatever you can conceive, so please do not smuggle society's remedy as your identity, because its force feeding a lie that wakes all dreams, shake the means for the ways in which they constrict is the paithon's scheme, suffocating all breath, now breathe, for your captor lies in wait for your permission to cease and assist your submission, you may think you're free but in many ways you're imprisoned, by your minds need to be on that comfort mission, but the safe route got you itchin, for lack of progress you caught mediocrity in the process, forget the coins and stop the wishin, for the well has begun to preceed sighs rather than your thirst's quenchin, i write to mention and to spite the tension for the vey reason i write is just a mere confession of what im stressin, so as to lift it back to the table so that im back to wrenchin, tightening my technique, its funny to think that i have anything to do with my refining, for i am the clay that is to be formed as we speak, so how can i form me? this isnt some other way for me to sneak in G-O-D, i just cant help it, He consumes my poetry or anything that makes me think, for the very inkling of what i have been made to be gives me strength and a desire to freely speak, so like i said before this got erased the first time, i dont respect the eyes that view, i just choose to write, knowing that He makes right in all i do, for when i fall short, He allows me to choose to rise again or stay silent, but upon my decision He gives me grace and for that I am ever silent in His presence, no longer stressin, for i met God in the middle of a piece and He helped me to end it, for we lift up our hearts once broken, and by His tru love they are continually mended...LOVEMYFLASH CODE /LOVEMYFLASH CODE

My Interests

hoopin, readin a lil, writing a lot, working out, getting organized (which means i am not so much), watchin movies, good conversations, playin football at the park, bbqs, clownin, speaking, performing, preaching, mentoring, listening, sleeping, thinking, praying, sleeping, waking up, enjoying the day.... trying to find His will for my life.

I'd like to meet:

..Hey-Zeus Christo, my grandfather when he was my age, if that's possible, my wifey to be, whomever humble people who are trying to make a change in this world, The A-Team?View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment

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Music:

Good Music.

Movies:

GodFather i and ii, The Passion, Dave Chapelle's Block Party, Freestyle the Art of Rhyme, Finding Nemo, Demolition Man, Coming to America, 50 First Dates, Higher Learning, Baraka, Malcolm X, Ray, Only the Strong, Land B4 Time, Slam... Happy Fliks... i stay sappy.. dont hate..

Television:

24, The Ultimate Fighter, SportsCenter, Lost...

Books:

Bible, The Alchemist, The Celestine Prophecy, Racial Formation in the US-Omi and Winant, As Iron Sharpens Iron, Prayer of Jabez, Renewing the Mind by Pastor Casey Treat, Grace by Harold Eberle, Revelation by Mason Betha, Every Man's Battle, Living Fearlessly on the Edge, Autobiography of Malcolm X, A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown, Rock This: Chris Rock, Why White Kids Love Hip Hop, Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyers.

Heroes:

My grandmothers, Jesus Christ, humble people that change the world, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King jr, El Haj Malik Shabaz, Tupac, Ghandi, Stephen and Paul of Acts.

My Blog

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Welcome back rain, welcome back storms, i guess it's come to the day where we must stay in doors, for when it rains it pours, but im just gonna find my way outside for I was made to face these storms....
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:04:00 PST

God Shall Add

Lord, I'm caught between a commitment I have made and a feeling of not quite sure, I commit myself to these youth but desire for them to live pure... so how do I stand by as I see them live ...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:03:00 PST

at the feet

"maybe its fate or maybe i went the wrong way," straight out the japhia life quotin questions that only He can answer and as He my friend, I just cant serve .. u see doubt is like a cancer, danci...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:20:00 PST

tomorrow

tomorrow is today, believe it or not, for we stand in the midst of where we have been and what we got, we all have our spot and it has its own purpose, this mission we have been called since our birth...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:19:00 PST

where were you?

when it all started, this art... its beginning... i see you grinning, but do you know the heart of the issue, the reason for tissues, the reason for your scars and why so much...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:44:00 PST

you ever read something that motivates you to speak?

..> you ever read something that motivates you to speak? thats how i get when i read the word, when i see a verse that speaks life to the curse and despite the destination im facing it gi...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:02:00 PST

Which High School has the best MC????


Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:18:00 PST

the breakout

Speaking on reaching these destinies beyond my thinking, never knew until the reaching and brinking of my extinction, got me blinking, seeing flashbacks of my sinking, into tears got me weeping, leaki...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:04:00 PST

about me?

Born with a big heart, try to give it freely, much love for my friends and family, knowing there's no difference between either, wiser is what i aim to be, left myspace cuz i thought it was changin me...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:11:00 PST

a city not forsaken

And you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken turn your brain off, no need to think this over, you were chosen before you could choose so breathe it in and let it be... those are his li...
Posted by V.I.S.T.O. on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:38:00 PST