Your Promise is bigger than your past…

Your Promise is bigger than your past…
One of my favorite sayings is: “It’s not that life is short, it is that people take too long to start living”. We tend to stay so focused on the past and wishing for the future that we never live in the right now. Our past is just that…past.
We tend to judge people by their past…which brings up a totally different point. If the whole is only the sum of its parts, then if we are to judge, are we judging just a few small points in the person’s past are the whole thing? It amazes me how someone could live a pretty good life and be judged by just one isolated instance. Do we (must we) always believe the worst of a person?
God has so much more in store for you than what you had in the past. Every new morning, he gives us new blessings. We need new blessings because our yesterday struggles are not our today struggles. Every new day is a another opportunity to grow and change…it is never too late to become what you should be.
I am a firm believer that life is a journey and the path that you choose and the struggles that you overcome make you stronger for the path ahead. Use that person that you used to be to become the better person that you are to get you to who you ought to be.
A bit of food for the soul…eat well

Mordern Day Witch Hunts ( Be wery wery quiwet...they're hunting freedom)

Witch hunts seem to never die. I know that this seems like a very strong statement to start out on a blog, but I have a very strong point to make. It seems to me that every aspect of life contains us trying to appease everybody. We can not have the 10 Commandments in or near the courthouses, but our whole legal structure is based on them and we swear/affirm (here we go again) on the Bible. In a Nation that professes to have freedom of Religion, we can no longer truly celebrate being Christians. Christmas trees are called Holiday trees. In fact, buy a Christmas stamp during that time of year…all it says is holiday. But there is no issue with Ramadan or Chanukah. Kids on a High School basketball team cannot (On their own) have a private moment of prayer…but there is freedom of religion.
What about our own personal freedoms? Do I have the right to be a Black man in America? Do I have the right to life and liberty? Can I pursue happiness without major blocks being put in my way because of the color of my skin? Can our Children go to school with out being made to feel victimized by the hanging of nooses on our trees? Can I stand up for the advancement of our people with out being hunted down on “trumped up” charges 30 years after the event? (http://www.freethesf8.org/)
We define a generation by the struggle or the cause that it endures. What does that say about our generation? Why are we fighting the same battles that our parents fought 40 years ago? Does there need to be a Black America within but without White America? What would that solve (it did NOT work for our Native American Brothers and Sisters)?
I dare rise and say that the measure and worth of a person is determined by what someone says that you are worth, but by the amount of worth that one creates for oneself. I can not let your IDEA of me become my REALITY.
A little food for the soul...eat well.