Relationship
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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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In The House Of Bethel
It’s been over 20 years since I’ve written this thought and it still happens in the house of Bethel. “In the House of Bethel“ I sit and observe every Sunday a peculiar people from a holy nation of royal priesthood, pilgrimage from diverse communities to consecrate themselves religiously in the sanctuary of God’s refuge. Numbered Continue reading
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We Are More Than This
While we as humans continue to live in this world, there will always exist a great need to improve race relations in the world at large. Let us be vigilant in our efforts to collaborate, cooperate and exercise and employ the legal process to legislate change at the local, state and federal government. Conversely, in Continue reading
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Red, White and Blue
With the recent ongoing discourse regarding standing while America’s National Anthem is sung and respect for her flag, it reminded me of my poetic twist or perspective I had of the flag back in September of 2000. As we seem to forget that America’s National Anthem did not always stand for us and her flag Continue reading
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The Hereditary Dividing Walls of Hate and Hostility Must Come Down
Honestly, I have been struggling with President Donald J. Trump’s reference to our people group as “Sons of dogs” several weeks ago. They say, sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Well, the name calling hurt me deeply and prompted my thoughts written below. “The hereditary dividing walls of Continue reading
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Becoming One Flesh Is More Than Just Sex
This is both a thoughtful perspective and insight from the male point of view as to our experience on one primary aspect of becoming soul mates by becoming one flesh with our wives. “Becoming One Flesh Is More Than Just Sex” I know it’s been bantered about, thought about, talked about and millions of songs Continue reading
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I Am More than Flesh of Your Flesh and Bone of Your Bone; I Am Soul of Your Soul
This thought was inspired by the way men and women who constantly find themselves entrapped in an endless parade of seemingly perpetual malignant relationships which leaves them bitter, heartless, hopeless and devoid of trust seeking vengeance because they fail to recognize they’re designed differently. Until we acknowledge and accept in large part that men are Continue reading
Spoken word by the spiritual poet 