Willing to Listen

My Love, My Love, I am willing to listen to the truth, even if it hurts. Preach the truth, allow us to search for the truth. I love you and pray that you are always a strong supporter of me. You believe in me and I believe in you. I'm out now, heading to the field museum. Have a blessed day today. I love you.

Together

The Shepard and his Sheep

John 10:7-10 Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 

I thank God for giving me a good Shepard to follow. I have to be very thankful to enter into your fold. You protect us. You comfort us and you love us. You challenge us to be our best. I'm so proud to be able to say I love you. I love how much you care for me and I care for you. Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers strengthens me. You do very good works. Your heart is true. I love you and will continue to pray for us. Be blessed today and be a blessing to someone special. 

Wonderful Sermon

Thank you for such a wonderful, thought provoking sermon. You are a blessing to us all. Whatever the situation, thank God you are there for some insight. I love that you are so thoughtful and respectful. Your actions say, try me, see if my words are not the truth, take me at my word. You keep me grounded with hope and faith. Your heart is in the right place. It's hard to fight for people who do more harm to themselves than to others. It's like having a tiger walk into a room, my son in law gave this comparison. When a place person walks into a room the tension level goes up. It's the same tension as a tiger walking into a room. You can tell us that it won't harm you but your senses are still on high alert. You never quite trust that tiger not to harm you or your family. It can never be seen as anything more than a dangerous animal. Even if a few people are able to maneuver around the tiger without harm, there is still apprehension and limits set on the tiger's freedom and access while around other people. How do we get people to stop seeing us as that tiger, how do we stop acting like that tiger? We can change. Hurting each other can stop. It's  not all but the few are making it so difficult for the many. We can do this. I have to have the faith that it can be done. 

Jonah 1:1-2

The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: Go to the great city of of Ninevah and preach against it, because it's wickedness has come up before me.

When we don't want to do it, but God wants us to do it. Stay strong, keep the faith, we can overcome this obstacle. I will not receive the word and do nothing because of fear. I will thank God for what he is doing in my life. I'm still here to keep trying and so I will, I love you and love your commitment. I still have faith in change happening for all of us. Life can and will get better. I love you, be blessed today and every day.

I will take my time

I read tomorrow and I'm going to tell you again that I love you. When you come to give the readers their hug, I'm going to tell you that I love you. I don't have many opportunities to interact with you and this is a prime opportunity to just reinforce my love. Today was so busy, but I with you. Blessed be the name of the Lord. I peeled from the sun, I stayed out there forever. So I'm watching the Wimbledon final, and I already know that Serena wins and gets her 22 title. She missed it three times over but she got it this time. If she can do it, do can I . Ebbs and flows come and go, but in the end, we are winners.god bless winners.

Two Wrongs do not make a Right

My Love, My Love, we have to build a new temple. Our bodies are our temple and we have to renew our minds and bodies. We can't keep thinking that violence is ok. Nobody, nobody, has the right to take lives just to take them. We don't get to judge. It's not right what the police did, but it's not right what they did to the police in Dallas. We need change from within. This only helps to reinforce taking authority and using violence in any situation where they feel threatened just because they are black. I have faith, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Not all police are bad, but a large number are very skeptical of blacks in general and just afraid of black men specifically. The first thing is to shoot. We have to find a better solution. Desperation will make people do desperate things. The hate meter is rising in our country. The election has a lot to do with that. You have candidates that need to show strength, but not be aggressive and bullying. That just didn't happen. Hate, fear and just brute power are the actions that are sought out. It's like they need to hurt others in order to feel good about themselves. Dear God, help us to love, love, love. I love you and pray that you continue to have the focus and drive to keep doing what you are doing. I love you.

Hope

People of Hope

Luke 1:47

My soul glorifies the Lord and my Spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant

I pray that I am forgiving of everyone who has done me harm. I don't want to carry the burden of hate. I may not be able to do it quickly, but I want to do it. I want to be mindful of my Lord and Savior. I pray that God will watch over our community. Forgive us for our sins and help us so that we can help ourselves and not hurt ourselves. God, we need a miracle to stop the constant violence against each other. Lord, help us to not see each other as the enemy. We need to see hope. This violence has to stop. We have to ask God for his forgiveness and mercy. We can do better. We will do better. We have to believe that it will get better. I know love can conquer all. We just have to remember that God loves us and we have his forgiveness and mercy, we just have to ask for it. Lord help us to remember to care for one another. See us as people. Worthy of life. We have to respect one another. I love you and know that you have forgiveness in your heart. You will see this crisis through. God loves you, I love you, and the community loves you. We have to be strong. 

The Black Women's Curse

I just realized that our curse is relying on ourselves to fo everything. I have yo rely on someone else to take care of me. I couldn't do that without always having a backup for myself. I have to trust you to take care of me. God knows if I am trusting in you completely. I have to believe you are protecting me and that you love me. I have faith that this is good. This will work. I am good. I will make this work. I can do better. I have to trust you, without a doubt. Dear God, what were you thinking. I can do this. It's possible. It can be done. It will be done. Thank God for everything. Forgive those who have disappointed me and trust again. I can do this. Thank you God.

Treat people the way you want to be treated

That is what I took away from today. Forgive the ones who have hurt you. Release the pain and the you will find relief. I have released the pain and forgiven anyone who have ever hurt me. I don't want to stay stuck in a place that is not content for me. I connect with you and I find that you connect with me. I can say I love you and believe that you say you love me. I'm not sure why we are not in a better togetherness state but we are circling the perimeter. We have been doing this for too long in my book but I will not give up. Never give up. I know love will conquer all. I love you and there has to be a solution. You are a smart man, figure this out. Make it work. Do what you do best. Help people who are hurt and lost. For what ever reason, God gave you this task with me. Help me get to you. I need you. I know I'm worth it, I just have to get over this hump. Let's do this. I can do it. I can move forward, I just need some help. I'm not on any drugs other than heart medicine, I have not been smoking anything, or drinking to excess, or anything that is creating a mind altering state. I'm just stuck. So today, I forgive me, I forgive you, and I forgive anyone else who has hurt me with or without my consent. I have been my own worse enemy sometimes. I know we can make this work, somehow, someway, I need you and I am not ashamed to say it. I love you and pray that you can help me. May God bless us and keep us on his radar. Be blessed and be a blessing to someone special. I love you.