Take The Risk-Love One Another

Lord, unless we decide to take the risk of loving our selves and our communities, we will continue to destroy everything around us. How can we say we love God, whom we do not see,  when we do not show love to those created in His image and likeness, whom we do see daily?
 Our love must reflect our actions. When we are around each other, the tension is so thick it can be cut with a knife. Lord, when I am in these schools and neighborhoods I see and feel the tension in the air. The students are angry, even the littlest of students.

Thank you Lord for giving us new mercies daily. Help us Lord to help our selves. We must show love to our people and show them how to love. We have shown them how to hate and have done a very good job of that. We have placed many examples out there for them to follow. Now let's show them how to love, and love daily. Not how to have sex, but how to truly be a loving, responsible, dedicated, committed, individual.  I am working to show my love. How can we improve when there is so much wrong? We take one thing and focus on it. Build that up to accentuate our love. Not blame others for our mistakes. Take responsibility for what we have done. I think the truth is where we start.

We can blame poverty and slavery, but when it comes down to it, we have to put the blame squarely on ourselves. All of us are responsible for the actions of our children. They learn from us. Our attitudes about certain situations and events. Our comments that we say so recklessly. Our many opportunities to build them up with confidence destroyed when we say hurtful and mean things. Our children hear the word NO so many times its ridiculous. Our foolishness in thinking we are spoiling them if we show kindness and love. Studies have been shown that our black and brown children hear the word NO over ten times more than white children. Our children are not even encouraged to explore comfortably their environment. We have to try and be uplifting positive, not negative and defeating. Let's change our demeanor and speak at the very basic of levels. The positive needs to flow from the bottom up.