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Rose

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About Me

I love my family and friends...I am beginning a love affair with regular exercise and healthy eating...I might even be athletic before the years out! I have spent some time pursuing a vision to shelter women and children and rebuild their lives through the Love of Jesus. i had a hiatus in the restaurant business and corporate America - so i can relate to Office Space and Anthony Bourdain too). We took our 20,000 sq ft church Sanctuary and transformed it into a Sanctuary for the homeless. We housed hundreds of people on a nightly basis. There have been so many UNBELIEVABLE days seeing God send His angels to the least of these. I love to travel and spent nine months of my life in Cape Town, RSA...I'm just beginning to realize there's MUCH MORE TO COME...Also, I LOVE TO COOK!!! I want to see the Kingdom of God manifested here as it is in heaven...And I am an awkward painter who can be obsessive, intense, and moody but sweet nonetheless....

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My Interests

Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God, The poor and needy, servanthood, LOVE, the beloved HOMELESS, music, art, more than mediocrity, Isaiah - the Prophet, community, Rose Colored Glasses, dreams to reality, doing the undone, painting, more music, underground clubs, exotic islands, orphans, widows, sounds that haven't been heard, colors that cause sound, the mentally ill, beggars, thieves, liars, circuit dancers, civil rights, comforting the afflicted, and the Passions of my Heart...

I'd like to meet:

righteousness, peace, and these are the joys of my heart

Music:

I love all music minus contemporary country, polka, and or death metal...really, it would take hours to list the many, many, many musicians that I am in absolute awe of...I remember the Violent Femmes and Replacements making an indelible impression on me at the tender age of 13...Robert Smith seemed to sing my heart throughout highschool mingled with the pixies and I still love steely dan, peter murphy, jeff buckley, bob marley, violet burning, chris issak, the killers, mazzy star, stone roses, spacehog, everclear, blink 182, kevin prosch , chopin, pearlman, simon and garfunkle, tv on the radio, jim morrison, johnny cash, marty robinson, joAnn mcfatter ;-), modest mouse, i would hate to leave out ultra vivid scene, andy hunter, the musicians in my top friends are some of my current favorites - Snowden, Aswan North, Red Letter Agent, Tentonic, Josh Garrels, DJ freeking VanCronkhite, Savath & Savalas, etc...and, I have now changed my stance contemporary country music...did I mention that Goldfrapp blows me away??? and i still left ALOT out!!!

Movies:

Juno, the pianist, pride and prejudice, i did like legends of the fall but i wore it out, love actually, hotel rwanda, Moulin Rogue, O Brother Where Art Thou, the Breakfast Club, a good western, the mission, Dark comedies (life aquatic for example), and the occasional romance...

Television:

Heroes, Samantha Who, Top Chef

Books:

The Bible, a good novel, biographies - especially nelson mandela's, anthony bourdain...shakespeare...poetry...the long lonliness...imperial woman...irresistable revolution...amytan...heschel...gutierrez...bonhoeffer.. james steinbeck - east of eden...dune...i love to read and too many books could be listed here!!!

My Blog

Relevance

2/5/08 What is relevance in the Kingdom?   Is it the suffering I feel when I deny my flesh for the sake of His love? Deny my flesh  denying the things I love and want so badly that they make m...
Posted by Rose on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:21:00 PST

Religious

I was thinking about a friend of mine the other day and decided to call her to see if she was okay.  It just so happened she was about to have her mother involuntarily committed to a mental insti...
Posted by Rose on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:25:00 PST

the message of the poor

This A.M.'s random thoughts on the message of the poor&   I am contemplating this message of going to the poor.  An obvious thought is that the mainstream church never seems to fully grasp...
Posted by Rose on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:53:00 PST

private writings of MT

I've started reading the private writings of Mother Teresa - I feel provoked and encouraged at the same time.  Another portrait of and ordinary person doing extraordinary things because of the gr...
Posted by Rose on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:14:00 PST

hope

For all the dreams God laid upon us: "There is surely a future hope for you,  and your hope will not be cut off." Proverbs 23:18
Posted by Rose on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:14:00 PST

hmmm...

Comments in passing They always take me days What did you mean? What did I say?   Ive been thinking about you might like me And I ve been thinking about I might like you    ...
Posted by Rose on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:43:00 PST

coldplay

"Til Kingdom Come"Steal my heart and hold my tongue.I feel my time, my time has come.Let me in, unlock the door.I've never felt this way before.The wheels just keep on turning,The drummer begins to dr...
Posted by Rose on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:13:00 PST

Foot washing at the Open Door

I had read in the volunteer section of the Open Door newspaper that they were giving pedicures to the homeless on Thursday nights.  I signed up and said that I would also come for the community d...
Posted by Rose on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:33:00 PST

Love

LOVE is definitely the most profound and important thing to "get" in this whole life...
Posted by Rose on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:36:00 PST

morning...

Life is so fleeting&   Did I learn to love?   If I were to die today would the things that troubled me at 4:00 AM be the same?   Why does celebrity gossip entertainment fascinate me?...
Posted by Rose on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:52:00 PST