Ben Rupp:
CLASS OF 2008
Ringling School of Art & DesignClass of 2008
Sarasota, FL
Ben's Story
Ben later attended Ringling College of Art and Design (Graphic & Interactive Communication) .
Music Ben likes includes Ashes Remain, Thousand Foot Krutch, for KING & COUNTRY. Books Ben likes include Hunger Games, History of the Base Ball, Redeeming Love. Movies Ben likes include The Truman Show, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, District 9. TV shows Ben likes include Hell On Wheels, Pawn Stars on History, Hollywood Treasure.
One of Ben's favorite quotes is:"PSALM 139
God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand.
I'm an open book to you;
even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get back;
I'm never out of your sight.
You know everything I'm going to say
before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you're there,
then up ahead and you're there, tooâ
your reassuring presence, coming and going.
This is too much, too wonderfulâ
I can't take it all in!
Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?
to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you're there!
If I go underground, you're there!
If I flew on morning's wings
to the far western horizon,
You'd find me in a minuteâ
you're already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
At night I'm immersed in the light!"
It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you;
night and day, darkness and light...Expand for more
, they're all the same to you.
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
I thank you, High Godâyou're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adorationâwhat a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I'd even lived one day.
Your thoughtsâhow rare, how beautiful!
God, I'll never comprehend them!
I couldn't even begin to count themâ
any more than I could count the sand of the sea.
Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!
And please, God, do away with wickedness for good!
And you murderersâout of here!â
all the men and women who belittle you, God,
infatuated with cheap god-imitations.
See how I hate those who hate you, God,
see how I loathe all this godless arrogance;
I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred.
Your enemies are my enemies!
Investigate my life, O God,
find out everything about me;
Cross-examine and test me,
get a clear picture of what I'm about;
See for yourself whether I've done anything wrongâ
then guide me on the road to eternal life.".
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