Shalom Doves

Here is an original song from the band "Rock Salt" I was fortunate to be a member of while at His Name Ministries back in the mid seventies. Enjoy

"Just Like It Says In The Bible" by Rock Salt

www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgrh_IrOvQ


My Testimony

I was born on a cold windy night on October 26th of 1951 to the parents of Ben and Dorothy. My childhood was fairly typical, but I never really felt like I truly belonged to this world, in fact most of the time I felt very much like a square peg in a round hole!

My father, a tormented soul, having parents from the old country of Sicily in which I realized later, really after his passing in 1972, must have been abused emotionally as a child by his mother. I think he secretly hated her, and subconsciously because he did, took it out on my mother, one of the sweetest, kindest, and non-judgemental people I have ever known. My father never showed me love, except to buy me a guitar from Sears. My first guitar costing all of $33 at the time, which he later, was mad at me for some reason, totally destroyed it by jumping on it. Years passed and he bought me another, a really nice Gibson guitar. I learned to play by listening to Beatle records and took part in many bands through the years. I later switched to bass.

I was in a number of rock & roll bands in the early seventies. After joining an original band, & moving to a farm in upstate New York, it seemed that I was on my way to fame & fortune. We did lots of recording in the city as session players, & then had a chance to record on an album by Jerry Jeff Walker. "Mr Bojangles" About a month later we moved to California to ride the wave of possible fame that this might bring.

 

To make a long story short, while we were living there we played a lot with various artists, but it was not until later that I had the most wonderful & awesome experience of my life. To preface this a bit, when I was a little baby, my mother's mother Nora laid hands on me & prayed that one day The Lord would find me & open my eyes, that I would be saved. That day came almost twenty three years latter when I did get saved spiritually & joined a Christian commune in Guerneville, a little town in Northern California. I later moved to Santa Rosa & into a larger Christian commune, "His Name Ministries" at 709 Davis St. It was right in the middle of "The Jesus Movement" Those days were some of the happiest in my life, & I still treasure the memories of time spent with my dear friends.

 

Something Super-Natural is about to happen!

One day, a few of us decided to take a ride out to the coast for the day, Jenner to be exact. We borrowed a light blue VW Beetle from a friend there, and off we went. It was a leisurely drive & a wonderfully sunny Northern California day. We arrived at Goat Rock, & spent a very nice day together in Christian fellowship. When it came time to head back, our red haired sister Scarlet drove, & brother Ken McGrath was in the passenger seat. I was in the back seat between two of my sisters in the Lord, one who later became my wife. We took River Road back, a two lane road with many twists & turns through the mountains. The most amazing thing I ever saw was about to happen. We were very close, about two or three car lengths behind a large ten wheel dump truck, when all of a sudden, I saw a car nosing up in the on-coming lane. What happened next was a scene right out of the Old Testament. A car decided to pass the car we first saw, and the car that was being passed, FOLDED UP/IN like an accordion. It literally changed molecular structure, became thin enough to let the car pass, & then returned to its original form. All of this happened in a matter of a second or two. I don't know why but only I along with my brother Ken saw this happen. He turned around to me with eyes as big as a cantaloupe & said, "DID YOU SEE THAT?" In a state of shock, I mumbled, "Yeah...., but how?" I latter realized that we would have probably all been killed. That is but one of three obvious unexplained miracles in my life. The forth song on the "Tour of Rooms"page, "Hound of Heaven" makes reference to a second. Thank you Jesus. This world is not like we think it is!

 

 If there is a reason & a purpose for miracles to happen, sometimes they will. Today I am very much inspired by these & other happenings in The Almighty's Kingdom.  Perhaps soon we will all get to share in something so magnificently glorious, our departure into the stars! Hopefully this Hanukkah The Lord of Glory will receive His Children. Thank you Jesus for the hope we have in you.

Shalom
Benny Caruso