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Once upon a time there was a very gifted scupltor.<br />

At an very early age he demonstrated extra-ordinary artistic skills.<br />

Then in his twenties he discovered who Jesus Christ was<br />

and was born again.<br />

But since he was a very young man,<br />

and since he was somewhat naive,<br />

he allowed his friends<br />

who were none-believers<br />

to take up most of his time. Instead of getting closer to the Lord via the word,<br />

he wasted over 20 years of his life chasing the wrong carrots/pipe dreams, pie-in-the-sky opportunities,<br />

etc instead of developing his craft.<br />

Then at 45 through a dying friend he came to realize<br />

that the Devil himself was behind all of the distractions.<br />

He learned that the Devil was doing this in an attempt<br />

to prevent the newly born again christian from becoming<br />

an instrument of God.<br />

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So he made the decision to dedicate the remainder of his life<br />

developing the gifts that God gave him.<br />

It required a leap of faith from him.<br />

He decided that since he had tried the "carrot-chasing strategy" that brought him nothing<br />

that he had "nothing to lose by listening to his calling".<br />

His friends thought he was nuts.<br />

His wife could not understand him.<br />

And his family thought he fell off the deep end.<br />

Still, he kept developing his craft till that day<br />

when a collection of his works<br />

were finally exposed in a museum.<br />

The theme of the collection<br />

"In Touch" was a representation<br />

of God, Christ and the Holy Spirit<br />

holding/carrying the spirit of different people<br />

at different points in their lives.<br />

I will only tell you about the first one.<br />

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The first sculpture "When I first saw you" was a poignant representation<br />

of God himself, holding a man, who is holding his wife who is holding a new-born.<br />

The eyes of the child are staring not only at the mother and the father<br />

but at the Lord who is in awe of the newborn just as the parents .<br />

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The mother's face streams with joyful tears; but upon examination of her tears and the tears of the<br />

sculpted God image, one could see an exact similarity between both.<br />

I concluded that what she thought as being her tears,<br />

were not just her tears, but were also Gods'.<br />

Then I asked myself why would God be crying?<br />

But more importantly I asked <br />

myself how, how could<br />

any man or sculptor could come up with such an idea?<br />

And then I realized that maybe the idea was not his idea at all.<br />

Maybe it was Gods' idea and the Holy Spirit had somehow slipped<br />

this image into the mind of the artist until that day when<br />

the sculptor transferred what was in his mind onto the slab of marble.<br />

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As I looked at the mothers' face, and then I looked at Gods' face<br />

I was compelled to lower myself until I was at the same level as that of a child.<br />

The expression of the child was that of complete selfless, unconditinal love.<br />

It seemed as if the child already knew how much he was already loved<br />

and for what reason his birth had come to pass.<br />

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He was the Saviour aka Jesus Christ..<br />

Without realizing it, I fell to my knees and I began confessing<br />

in front of strangers; and as I did this, the sun came breaking through the clouds and into<br />

the stain-glassed windows of the museum with a light that illuminated both me and the sculpture .<br />

I realized that everything that I had ever thought as important<br />

was not as important as his birth, his life, and for whom he made the sacrifice.<br />

As the tears streamed down my face<br />

I could feel a hand on my shoulder; then I felt a second hand and then a third as something very heavy<br />

was being lifted from my heart.<br />

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When I turned I saw the sculptor kneeling beside me<br />

and in his eyes held a message:

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"I never forgot and I will never forget<br />

any lamb who is brave enough, who is wise enough, but most of all, humble enough to come to me.."<br />

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If you do a search Michael Di Rienzo songs you will be able to listen for free many of my recordings; some of which were recorded in a studio and some in my home studio.<br />

The overall lyrical and strong structures are strong<br />

and my singing playing has improved over the years.<br />

In the next 12months I plan to dramatically improve my singing skills and to promote this body of songs inspired by the holy spirit.<br />

While listening to the songs, if you feel compelled to support the project, you can download at the links below.<br />

If you want to get involved or if you know a professional who could be interested in developing this collection to the next level then write to me.<br />