Poetry
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God Is In The Boat
God, this morning we approach your presence with great guilt, angst and doubt, as we are estranged from you because of our ego. Now we must let go of our ego, as we are driven to our knees before your throne of grace in hopes that we may find tidbits of boldness and morsels of Continue reading
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The Church Without Walls
This morning, Thursday, March 19, 2020, the church without walls, calls on the eternal Word, God of glory, and God of love who cannot be contained, who cannot be confined, and who cannot be quarantined to fill us with His peace, fill us with His joy, and fill us with His blessed hope. As we are Continue reading
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It All Happened In Black
The word Black has been misused and abused by definition and design for centuries in the Western World. We now find ourselves trying to be supersensitive and culturally aware of how it impacts black people and people of color. This really speaks to the depth and degree of psychological damage caused by corrupting the pure Continue reading
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Proud To Be A Part Of Your Pride
A very close friend of mine, asked if I could write a thought for her Dad’s eightieth birthday celebration. “Proud To Be A Part Of Your Pride“ Abba, Father, Dad, you have been granted the miraculous gift of life and longevity. As you have lived beyond the days of our years which are 3 scores Continue reading
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In The Name Of Love
I attended my friends wedding on Saturday, February 15, 2020 as one of two best men in his wedding. He asked me to write a thought to present for the occasion. “In The Name of Love“ Anthony, I have been told, there is nothing new under the sun and that everything happens for a reason Continue reading
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
We ask the LORD for our daily bread and we cannot eat for there is no room inside. As we are saturated, soaked and sated by silt, sediments carried by those who dwell outside the covenant community in secular, social and libertine streams of life. We sit in the seat of sedition, walk in the Continue reading
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Let Go Of The One You love
A friend of mine asked if I could write a thought to read at her mom’s wedding, because she didn’t want to grab some generic off-the-shelf poetry for the occasion. As her mom is getting remarried and she’s having ambivalent feelings about letting go of the one she loves. “Let Go Of The One You Continue reading
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We Are More Than Pictures In A Picture Frame
During this season, let us reach out, rekindle and revive our relationship with family outside the picture frames of the past. “We Are More Than Pictures In A Picture Frame“ Remember when family shelves littered with nuggets of nostalgic moments, speaking a thousand words in various shapes, sizes and colors, capture cinematic suspended snapshot slideshow Continue reading
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Today, Glory Came Down
This thought is in memory of my mom who journeyed the last 6 years of her life while experiencing the debilitating effects of vascular dementia. She was laid to eternal rest on Saturday, September 8, 2018 in the presence of family, friends, loved ones and Almighty God. “Today, Glory Came Down” Today, Glory came down Continue reading
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The Young Nation, She Has Fallen
This poetic thought was written 20 years ago. It was all inspired by a series of events which included then President Bill Clinton’s scandal with Monica Lewinsky, Reverend Jesse Jackson acting as his spiritual adviser with his own marital affairs at the time which became breaking news later, Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, indigenous native Continue reading
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