I just looked back at all the unfinished posts or incomplete thoughts that I started since I began writing this blog a few months ago and I realized that I had more unpublished posts than published ones. Sometimes my mind goes into overdrive, I have so many thoughts, so many things on my mind and hard as I try I don't finish the thoughts... the work...the words... the process.
I know that I am by no means alone in facing this dilemma of finishing what you start; for we live in a world that is full of so much information; television, movies, the news, the Internet and now of course blogs all provide us with more information to process, more stuff to know, more fact and fiction to sift through and process. Sometimes I think we are all on information overload; our children are growing up faster, they know much more than we knew at their tender young ages. Their vocabularies are more extensive in lots of cases, so they too are bombarded with too much information. They learn things in school that should be taught at home because sometimes the school doesn't even give the parents a chance to decide what it is they want their children to know and learn. Sometimes classroom curriculum is substitute for private agendas (THAT'S ANOTHER STORY) .
So... we live in a world with too much information we also live in a time that will certainly go down in the pages of our history books: towers being blown up, wars being waged on city streets and a white woman and a black man running for the presidency of the United States. The institution of marriage being redefined etc. etc. etc.
Knowledge, wisdom, education and the ability to communicate with your peers these are all very important things. But as human beings I believe we tend to lose sight of who we should be in contact with the most who we should learn of; that my friends is of course God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. We are, as the scripture says, living in a world that is ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of( See 2 Timothy 3:7). The knowledge of what you ask... the knowledge of the highest being we could ever know, the most intelligent the source in fact of our very own intelligence. The knowledge of His love and sacrifice, the knowledge of His commandments, His ways, His precepts, His judgements. The knowledge of the breadth and depth and height and width of one that cannot actually be measured by inches or the metric system or gallons or pints. The knowledge of the infinite one.
As connoisseurs of information we know the statistics to hockey and baseball and basketball and football games, we know that 2+2=4. We know the latest gossip in the world of entertainment, Even in the church, the house of God we know more about what's going wrong in people's person lives than we do about trying to help them resolve their issues through Christ. Yes we know this and we know that but what we really know is jack... because anything, any knowledge outside of God means nothing or knowthing. Paul said it best in 1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified. Paul knew like the Old testament writer Solomon that everything is meaningless... and that life is full of vanity and that all the wisdom in the world is meaningless without wisdom, knowledge, understanding of the Lord and most importantly a personal relationship with the Lord. Jesus said it best in Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Learn of the God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Comforter the Holy Spirit. Learn and find rest for your very soul.
If anyone is interested I will be posting more frequently this month and the reason for that decision is that I will make a personal commitment to finish the posts that I have started; since they all revolve around God's Word in our world today I don't think they will be outdated.
Read on and God Bless You
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
What's Going On...
I originally wrote this in the summer (June 2008) it is now October 30, 2008 and my views/opinions have not changed much I am seeking wisdom from God to make the right decision in an election that is fueled by some very volitale issues of which I must ask myself what stands as a priority a top issue for me. I urge you to do the same, seek the wisdom of God and continue to be about our Father's business...reaching the lost.
Since the last time I wrote an entry a historical event has happened in the United States of America. Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States. A Black man regardless of ethnicity this is a Black man that is definitely something to stand up and take notice of. If we rewind just a bit the fact that this Black man ran against a white woman was no small headline either.
So history was made my friends and where do we go from here. Now I can only speak for myself as, I represent a number of demographics and I can assure you that my opinions will speak to the diversity of these various populations. Some people will disagree with certain aspects of my "arguments" while others may not. As a Christian, Black, registered Democrat I am attempting to see this event from all sides... here it goes.
As a Black woman... in America I understand and relate to the social plights and ills of the people sometimes referred to as Black sometimes known as African American population of this country. This community has been systematically oppressed since the arrival of slaves from Africa. This statment is not an excuse it is simply a fact and a fact that the majority in this country wish that we would get over. I myself agree that we should get over it as well but how, Frankly that solution would take a book of a few volumes or more. For starters acknowledgment by the majority a.k.a white people that the past actions of their ancestors were less than admirable should occur; even today in 2008 there is still systematic hatred and inequity occuring not only in the U.S. but all over the globe.
As a Democrat: I believe that I am a Democrat because my parents were and are Democrats and their parents before them. The nature of this party is something that I am just starting to understand and when I think of my ideological beliefs I tend to stand with the Republicans more so than the Democrats. As far as issues of abortion and marriage and cloning and down the line it has been the Republican party that lately represents my viewpoints from a moral standpoint. That is not to say that all Democrats are immoral it just means that liberal thinking is not necessarily free. I think liberal thinking or liberal ideology or theology has come to mean that it's okay to think anyway about anything as long as it is in line with my out of line thinking. Then we have to ask ourselves the question who defines what appropriate thinking is... That Would be God.
As a Christian... and I must say that this is the area that I have to identify with the most, this population which consists of blacks, whites, Asians, Africans, latinos, literally every color of the rainbow. This group is the group that needs to step up and be as the bible tells us the salt of the earth, the people with flavor and savor and favor; the people with love and compassion with forgiveness and understanding with giving spirits and kind words with the love of Christ.
Since the last time I wrote an entry a historical event has happened in the United States of America. Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for President of the United States. A Black man regardless of ethnicity this is a Black man that is definitely something to stand up and take notice of. If we rewind just a bit the fact that this Black man ran against a white woman was no small headline either.
So history was made my friends and where do we go from here. Now I can only speak for myself as, I represent a number of demographics and I can assure you that my opinions will speak to the diversity of these various populations. Some people will disagree with certain aspects of my "arguments" while others may not. As a Christian, Black, registered Democrat I am attempting to see this event from all sides... here it goes.
As a Black woman... in America I understand and relate to the social plights and ills of the people sometimes referred to as Black sometimes known as African American population of this country. This community has been systematically oppressed since the arrival of slaves from Africa. This statment is not an excuse it is simply a fact and a fact that the majority in this country wish that we would get over. I myself agree that we should get over it as well but how, Frankly that solution would take a book of a few volumes or more. For starters acknowledgment by the majority a.k.a white people that the past actions of their ancestors were less than admirable should occur; even today in 2008 there is still systematic hatred and inequity occuring not only in the U.S. but all over the globe.
As a Democrat: I believe that I am a Democrat because my parents were and are Democrats and their parents before them. The nature of this party is something that I am just starting to understand and when I think of my ideological beliefs I tend to stand with the Republicans more so than the Democrats. As far as issues of abortion and marriage and cloning and down the line it has been the Republican party that lately represents my viewpoints from a moral standpoint. That is not to say that all Democrats are immoral it just means that liberal thinking is not necessarily free. I think liberal thinking or liberal ideology or theology has come to mean that it's okay to think anyway about anything as long as it is in line with my out of line thinking. Then we have to ask ourselves the question who defines what appropriate thinking is... That Would be God.
As a Christian... and I must say that this is the area that I have to identify with the most, this population which consists of blacks, whites, Asians, Africans, latinos, literally every color of the rainbow. This group is the group that needs to step up and be as the bible tells us the salt of the earth, the people with flavor and savor and favor; the people with love and compassion with forgiveness and understanding with giving spirits and kind words with the love of Christ.
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