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Classic Rock vs. Contemporary Christian & The Ark

This is why I know and am so close to my friend, Gabriel. I met Bax (on bass, wearing the dark glasses, a god) in 2001 in Orlando. My early stories in my main book, "Chapelgate, a Spiritual Memoir," start in Houston, where my late husband was the top expert in computerized oil well drilling. Then I got the bright idea he could do that from our beautiful home and stay home with our little children and me. Then, we founded a corporation, ICDI, and he did. Then the condo was feeling too small. "Well, he can do this from anywhere - live wrapped up in his computer day and night." We had about $20,000. a month coming in, back in the mid-1980s. So my next bright idea was to buy an atoll near Tahiti. I'm a dangerously serious "Dreamer."


So he took me there. "I guess not..." So my next bright idea was to buy an old Grist Mill, Lodge, and 3 waterfalls on 39.5 acres an hour from Nashville (picture me drooling through "Unique Homes" glossy magazines I bought at the grocery store each month. I had a stack a foot high.) Picture me as a young, sincere, enthusiastic believer..."Dear God if there is something about Christianity I don't understand would you please show me what it is?" I believed totally God would. So God did. ...drooling through my magazines in my Houston condo...3 little children playing in our house and our yard...seeing the island/atoll...seeing "Evins Mill" in Smithville, Tennessee with it's historic buildings, LOTS of forest room, even a gorge, 3 waterfalls, a 50 foot high dam with a Mill pond next to the Grist Mill, the 5,000 sq. ft. "Lodge" up on the cliff overlooking it all, made of extinct American Chestnut logs. It was the former estate of Senator Edgar Evins and his son Joe L. Evins, of Tennessee, their private hideaway for family and friends. Then it dawned on me, "Can I have THAT one, God?” And God (and Robin) gave me Evins Mill. I named it "Chapelgate" and dedicated it to God and eventually made it a private hideaway for Contemporary Christian Music Songwriters, Recording Artists, and Industry leaders, small and large. Then Robin died. Long story short, there was a $690. million dollar battle in Federal Court over Robin's intellectual property (mine) and damages to me (true). I followed Jesus to the point of, "Sell everything you have and follow me," I sacrificed it and gave it to God. The full story is in my books and all I write. Now poor, except for just what I'd need for the next part of my journey, the kids and I moved to an apartment in Orlando, Florida. I had finished a Masters degree in Religion by that time, it had taken 8 years total, which I'd spent in Tennessee, Texas, and traveling with the kids, mostly homeschooling them. Orlando.


I had begun what I call "retranslating the Bible" meaning I had started at Genesis and a decade later would have made my way word by word to Revelation, twice, 15,000 hours while raising my kids. It just kept getting more and more and more fascinating. You've probably never heard this but it started matching my daily life, the principles. And God started talking to me. Try this and see, that's all I have to say. He did, in my mind, with thoughts that matched the essence of whatever I was studying. That's how God and I retranslated the Old Testament. I had tried to start at Matthew but it hadn't made a lick of sense, so I went back to Genesis. After intense focus, it began to make sense. I heard, "Love your enemy." Who was my "enemy?" Those rejecting God. I was perfectly happy not dating, being alone, retranslating, working on my Masters degrees, because I added a Master of Divinity to my efforts. But I heard, in my mind and heart as I studied, "Go find 3 guys and date them, pick opposites. So I did. Then a few months later I heard, "Now pick one." I picked Bax. I had found him because I had seen a notice on the Orlando Music Store bulletin board for an open mic at a bar. I didn't go to bars. So I took my guitar and my songs about God and went to that open mic. Bax was on the stage in all his glory. I picked Bax.


That's how I retranslated all the stories in the Old Testament beginning with Moses leading the children of Israel out of "Egypt." After awhile you learn the symbolism. I followed, in my daily life decisions all the principles I was retranslating, chapter after chapter, verse after verse. The Ark of the Covenant is symbolic of the two "golden angels" in this particular case Bax and me, opposite belief systems, trying to reach out to each other in love, their wing tips touching, about the very place where God would make his presence known. It is very difficult to love someone with a belief system that opposes yours. He thought he was right with every daily choice. I thought he was wrong with every daily choice. I thought I was right. We tried so hard to save each other, to love. Golden angels, facing each other, wing tips stretched towards each other, tips touching. This is where YHWH talks, teaches, guides, supernaturally. That's what I mean about retranslating. God made his presence known because I had done as Jesus instructed, loved my enemies, forgiven my enemies, sacrificed all my possessions, and followed to this point. It is a path that exists. I documented it in my book and in all my writings and songs.


Bax became my boyfriend and we took my songs about God and his mastery of Classic Rock and spent the next decade networking with the local professional musicians, the best of the best because Bax was the best of the best. Bax chose Gabriel, as the best of the best drummers. Gabriel is a god. That's how I know and why I love Gabriel (also my opposite) and why Gabe would fly to Austin, Texas after Bax and I moved from Orlando to Austin to be near my family. Austin is the "Live Music Capital of the World," and Bax and I simply repeated what we had already done for a decade in Orlando. This time I documented it with my videos and stories, becoming a Producer at the Austin Public television station. I created "Texas Tales from a Lone Star" television series. It eventually became my short-stories as well.


This is Bax, in the early days of Orlando he was called, "The Infamous Bax" and then "Bax on Bass." We have now spent four years networking in Austin. He's performing with the best of the best. On this particular night it is with Allen Michael Simon, next to him, vocals, and Rick Plester, far right, on guitar. Bax is playing bass and giving them lick for lick, total mastery. He has on the dark glasses. My stories and videos are on my website: www.ChapelgateAngel dot com

www.EvinsMill dot com (My Chapelgate)

www TheBrando dot com (My Atoll)


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Written February 2, 2025 at 2:25 pm



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