JOHN 8:12
WHEN JESUS SPOKE AGAIN TO THE PEOPLE, HE SAID, “I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. WHOEVER FOLLOWS ME WILL NEVER WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT WILL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE.”
Hi all, bet you didn’t expect me back this soon again, hehehehe, see I told you I was going to try to be better and get on more.
I will admit though, it’s a lot easier to make little Vlogs than it is to make blogs, so like I said before, now that I found a new and much better system I’ll be making a lot more appearances on this site.
If you watched the Vlog already you know why I’m here, I’m on here to talk about one of the greatest Christian singers of my time, that persons name is Carman Domenic Licciardello, he was mostly known as just Carman though, that was his “stage name”. He died on February 16th and when I heard about his passing I was so sad and I knew I needed to do something to honor him on my page, he was just way to big a part of my life not to.
He is the one who introduced me to not only great, creative Christian music but also great worship music, my love for music started with this guy. I remember there, were 2 artist my dad introduced me to when I was younger, one was Rebecca St. James and the other was Carman, I loved both these artist but there was something that just pulled me to Carman, I bought every album he ever created from 1986 to today and some I played so much I burned them out lol. I met him multiple times, I met him so many times that he actually started to recognize me lol, but the first time I met him was probably my most memorable. I was at a CD/book store (for those who don’t know what a CD is, it’s a little round disc that plays music LOL) anyways I was at this store waiting in line to get his autograph but there were sooo many people that we actually started to think maybe we should leave because at that time I was even more fragile than I am today and so we were scared with how crowded it was getting and how small the store was that I might get bumped into and if that happened it could be severely damaging for me, like having to be hospitalized. Well just as we were thinking about leaving his manager and him seen me waiting in line and I think they could tell my mom and grandma were a little nervous about me being in that crowd so his manager comes up to us and says excuse me are you waiting to meet Carman? We said we were and he said follow me and he takes us to this back room where Carman was sitting there in his little blue suite looking all jazzy and cool, and my grandmother started drooling all over the poor guy LOL, but I have to say that was one of the most memorable moments I ever had with a Christian artist. He just sat and talked with us and took pictures, and gave us posters and it was just so awesome and such a special experience especially at that time, because back than Christians and especially churches didn’t really do much to help or encourage the disabled and so that moment was huge for me because it was the first time a Christian actually took time to make me feel special and most importantly accepted me and my family for who we were. He didn’t try to pray the disease out of me or quote every healing scripture but he just loved on me and my family and at that time that was soo needed and to be honest I only experienced that type of thing one other time and that was when I met the Shocklee’s. I know I bring them up a lot but this is partly why, because it is so rare to be seen in the Christian community as a average human being, sadly most just focus on wanting to “fix us” or excuse me I mean “heal us” lol 😂 not many people know this but right before Carman got cancer, literally I mean like 2 days before, he was supposed to meet me online and allow me to interview him on this site, THE-BOOK-OF-ROO blog. I had reached out to him about a week before his diagnosis and he did respond and he told me he’d love to be a part of what I was doing and I was supposed to meet him on a few days later where I than was going to interview him, but 2 days before the interview I had heard about the diagnosis and so right away I contacted him and of course I told him how sorry I was and that I’d be praying, but I also told him to please not worry about the interview and to please just take care of himself, and at first he kept insisting he could try to still make it happen but I told him if anyone understood his position it was me and so I told him not to worry about it we would have another opportunity when he felt better, unfortunately that opportunity never came, and I figured it probably would never come to be honest but not because of a reason like this, I thought if I lost the opportunity it be because my health declined, it just goes to show you, no one knows their future. Carman blessed me so much over the years and my heart is very heavy and sad to know I’ll never see him in concert again in this world, but hopefully I will see him in heaven where we can both worship our king together Rest In Peace Carman, the world of Christian music will never be the same without you 🙏
I also just want to say a quick thank you to my Brother Jason Yafanaro, I don’t know if you noticed but the Microphone you see in the corner of my video, that Microphone was purchased by my brother Jason, he had seen me mention it on my social media pages and right away, I mean literally within like 2 minutes he went and purchased it for me and it arrived at my door exactly 24 hours later, gotta love Amazon baby LOL. So to my big brother thank you for blessing me, it has made the recording process so much easier. I am very blessed to have so many people who support me, trust me I know, I know there are not many people, especially disabled people whohave that, so I truly want to make sure I always show how appreciative I am towards everyone who not only blesses me, but supports me, so again thank you Jason and thank you to all those who continually support and encourage me daily 🙏
One last thing, I know I said this in the Vlog, but I just want to say, THANK YOU JESUS WE JUST CELEBRATED OUR 1ST ANNIVERSARY ON PATREON!!! WHOOP WHOOP 🙌 patreon is a website where you can help support creative people like myself, it’s basically a partnership. If you join mine you can join for as little as $5 a month, but also, depending on the dollar amount you choose and how long you choose to give for, you will receive little gifts from me, you could receive a THE-BOOK-OF-ROO magnet, or a OI CAN DO ALL THINGS wristband, or a Tote Bag, Pampering products from Perfectly Posh, Younique makeup, you also will be the first to receive my book before anyone else, so check it out, you won’t regret it, and if you can join, than please do so, it will help me tremendously, and remember you can join as little as $5 a month, so check it out in the link below 👇
Well everyone that was really all I had for today, I hope your having a blessed week/month and you will be hearing from me again soon. Again thank you for everything and remember Jesus Loves you and so do I 😘
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