Saturday, June 03, 2006

Meeting a Mass Murderer...

whoa. i would normally NEVER answer these kinds of questions, but given that i DID list a 'celebrity' who i'd like to have lunch with on my list of 50 things about me.... and today someone asked me who the heck he was... i will answer these. lesson learned? never say never! lol....
If you could spend 24 hours with a celebrity:

1. Who would s/he be?
2. Where would you expect him/her to bring you?
3. Where would you bring him/her to?
4. What would you like to do with him/her?
5. What’s the one thing you’d been always wanting to ask the celebrity?
6. If s/he didn’t treat you well, would s/he be your favorite celebrity?
7. What would you give to him/her as a gift before saying goodbye so s/he’d remember you?

[from Great Pretenders]

1. David Berkowitz. if you don't know who that is, he was the 'son of sam' mass murderer in new york back in the 70's.... and he found forgiveness. unfortunately, his homepage is offline for some reason - it had an awesome video of how he found Jesus. hopefully it will be back.

2. i wouldn't expect him to bring me anywhere - becuase he is in jail serving a 300-some year term.... i would have to be some kind of highly respected journalist or something to even get an interview... if that would happen, then it would be in jail, of course.

3. i wouldn't be able to take him anywhere, but i'll pretend: i would take him to church. i think he would be blessed by that!

4. i would love to sit down and talk about God, love, and forgiveness.

5. what would i ask him? ....i don't know.... everything, nothing..... how he is doing, how is his walk.

6. he's (in)famous, but not realllly a celebrity... but i have to say... meeting him would be pretty much to find out what kind of guy he has become... full of grace and forgiveness, like i have heard? or has his heart hardend again, after all these years in jail? and whatever he was like, it's not about 'favorite celebrity', it's about praying for him, y'know? finding encouragement that if he can find Jesus' forgiveness.... why would i, or you, doubt God's forgiveness?

7. a new bible. and hopefully, i'd leave him encouraged... and i'd leave with a mailing adress where i could write to him, i would hope.

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i do hope his web page comes back online.... i don't know why it's not anymore, it was a very encouraging site..... unless there's something i don't know, which of course, could be true! :P
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