Go check his stuff out at rickpino.com or at his myspace at myspace.com/rickpinoband. It’s awesome. “I Can Hear the Sound” should be an initial listen.
I think it is best described as prophetic worship on steroids.
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Archive for October, 2007
People you care about will cause you to change what you care about. But you will change because you care.
Sometimes people accuse me of dropping things suddenly, especially at churches that I have been involved with in the past. I am called to be a husband and Father first. I refuse to allow my kids to hate the church because I put it before my responsibilities to them. I am not speaking of God’s kingdom when I speak of “church”, but church as an institution….church as man’s ambition to be great.
Christine and I have began a journey that requires much change and will be an ongoing process, but we change because we care.
Sorry, I haven’t updated frequently. We have been a bit busy lately. While driving into work today, I had a couple of really cool thoughts, but I can’t seem to remember them now…..
There are a few projects I am working on getting off the ground. I will explain more at a later date.
Just know that life is a journey and seasons change.
I make drugs. No, not the get high type, but the ones that actually stop some pretty serious terminal illnesses such as Lupus or Hepatitis. One thing that we do not do when we are initiating a new drug campaign is plan for failure. We can’t. The FDA won’t allow it. We have to have faith in our systems and procedures and know that they will do what we say they will do. We have validated them and we know they are second to none. So we never plan for failures, not that they don’t happen; but when they do, it creates a dynamic for improvement and we get better. 
I will not plan for failure in my life, neither in my future, or the destinations that God has started me on. I have faith in him and many times he has validated himself even when he doesn’t need to. The SOP (Standard Operational Procedure), or the bible lists the protocol that He abides by and it is unchanging. So I will overcome, I will achieve, through him and realize the plans that were whispered in my heart ages ago. If something goes wrong, there is room for improvement and it usually is improvement that is needed. Plan for failure…..Not on your life!
A few days ago as I was driving home, I heard the words “Let me paint the picture for you”. I then started envisioning what my future would be and what I felt needed to happen to get there. You see, this has been a very confusing and frustrating time as I haven’t been able to make the forward progression to what and where I feel I need to be. I have always thought about where I would be and have wondered what it would look like, but it has always lacked total clarity and I have not been content in the shaping process. It has always been in my strength to create the future. But this was my fallacy. It is not in my strength to create or paint the picture of my future. I am not the artist. God is. My life is his artwork. God doesn’t create with brush strokes, he creates with direction and conversation. To become the priceless work of art, we have to be obedient to his will. The really cool thing about this type of art is that it is not inanimate, but organic, or better yet a relational art form. In other words, we can ask why the artist shaped us this or that way and communicate our desires to the creator. The relationship we have with Jesus allows us to be content in the shaping process and walk it out together as Father and child.
As a child I used to wade through ponds and creeks in the woods frequently. Many times when I first came upon them they would have a lot of clarity as they had not been disturbed by anyone or anything, but as I started wading, the sediment was disturbed and at times made the water very murky. Well being the North Carolina boy I was, I knew that there could be many Snappin’ Turtles and possibly an alligator or two lurking around. I would start getting freaked out and would try to find the closest “out” to my problem and sometimes that would mean walking in even deeper water and getting in a worst situation.
Life can be like this at times. You are in situations that look pretty clear, and BOOM!, either you, someone else, something, or even God at times will start disturbing the situation. Instead of listening fully to God, we think we have the right direction to move to and then realize that it doesn’t exactly work out either. Life and direction becomes a bit Murky to say the least. Transition is difficult at times. We sometimes have to stop, focus, and “Let it settle” before we begin to move. You have to move though, you have no choice, so let God bring clarity to your steps.
