THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

Is your dream a dream or a nightmare? Is your dream about the woman giving a successful birth to her child? Is it about the man saving a child who got away from mom and almost hit by a car? A young person helping a homeless person? Or is it a nightmare about another drive-by shooting,? Is it about someone celebrating their 100th birthday or a non violent Ñew Year’s celebration. Every time the news comes on a violent act, a governmental act of injustice or something else to worry about pops up. We need some good news so we can have some pleasant dreams. School is open. Are we going to have a non violent school year? If tears come to our eyes let them be tears of joy. We need some.

A trip is going to a destination. A fast and easy trip. A journey is traveling with a goal. During a journey we seem to be more concerned about direction than roads. “Where did this take place? What was accomplished on this route? What is this?” . We are more concerned about the destination and what was accomplished along the.journey. A journey is geared more towards the process. In search of something.

Are we on a trip or a journey as we make an effort to accomplish our goals the United States of America? Many of the places we seem to be heading to we have already been. We don’t seem to be learning more but repeating what we already know. Are we on an exploring journey or just a repeat performance. Or are we reviewing our mistakes so we can grind them in deeper. Do we have a journal recording our findings? Or is it just a diary, telling us what was done each day? We need to go somewhere America !

We just celebrated our 250th birthday. Or was it our funeral? The way we keep running the streets killing each other, who knows? So much distrust is in our states today. A strong believer in God and His miracle working powers can lose faith in Him. We need His miracle working powers in this world today. Or better yet they are here we just don’t witness them. A miracle in my eyes are not understandable so our human eyes can’t see them. This breaking down in our U.S.A. may be God making us see that He is still in charge and we need Him.

Philadelphia, our city of brotherly love doesn’t seem to be a city of brotherly love today. We don’t have trust in our neighborhood. We can go into a house of God and feel no security. This country was built on God’s love. But we don’t even want to recognize Him in it, We bow down to man and our Governmen We have accomplished much but we can’t recognize it in our Country. We are no longer bonding with other Countries. We want it all for ourselves

We want money to buy what it can’t. I guess that is why we don’t have the love we used to have in our Country. We are trying to buy it. And it can’t be bought.

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We are confused in this world. Our little boys and girls are eager to learn and grow up, They will ask questions to get their answers.

. Our older generation have so much learned wisdom. We in the middle are lost but we think we are error proof. We know too much to get advice from the older generation. We think that they are no longer wise. Wisdom comes with age but most of us think we lose it, And at the same time our younger generation we feel have not lived enough to know any answers or solutions. So we run around in circles confused.

We are confused about the running of our governments, the leadership in our schools, Our law enforcement is disorganized, and don’t want religion in the circle.

America’s 250 years will be celebrated in a few days.Is this our birthday coming up or our anniversary? After twelve months when a baby is born he becomes a year old. After being married for one year we have our first anniversary. So if we have been an independent state for 250 years is this our 250th birthday or Anniversary?  Has dementia set in and we can’t remember our history about the forming of our Country? If so we need help from our younger generation. For we sure need help with our running of our Country .

Our Country was built on the solid ground of religion. Now we don’t even want rt in it. Is this a birthday or a funeral? Happy birthday America . I hope I see you next year.

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We are always moving in this world. If we are not going somewhere we are coming from somewhere. We will someday have a final destination. Death and life come in the same package. You can’t have one without the other. Some of us run from life thinking we are running from death. All those steps we take thinking that we are running from the unknown for protection and avoiding trouble are steps we are really taking running from life. Life is what happens when we are avoiding it or running from it. Whether running looking behind or running forward looking ahead we can’t run from life. Let’s not miss the view while we are running. Life is short. And if we just have to run let’s run to God for direction añd protection and not from life,

Happy Father’s Day. Fathers

are special. How is Mom and the others doing? Dad it was only because of you and mom that I am here. If I haven’t told you in so many words, I love you. Both you and mom made so many things possible for us kids as we grew up. I am still here and lgrowing. God is not through with me yet. You and mom keep your heads up. The rest of us are looking forward to, not visit but move up. While we remain below our spirits and your spirits meet for your bodies are gone. But you are still here. Happy Father’s Day.

The Bible has no place in our Country today. Slavery has a history in our states With all of this equal rights being debated we don’t recognize it any more. Our Country was partially built by our slaves. The Bible refers to all of us. By taking the Bible out we also take out part of our history

Issues along with the history and the make up of America. We are no longer the United States of America but the Divided States of America. We are no longer a free Country. We are separated and living in slavery even though we don’t recognize it. We have taken out our rights while we think we are adding them. We are no longer welcoming other Countries in, When I was in grade school we sometimes talked about our Country being a melting pot, welcoming other Countries. We . need our name back (The United States of America).

Have you ever seen the healing powers in a baby? Fear and confusion can cause sickness. However the courage of the child who hasn’t learned it yet can heal you.

Many of the older generation who are classified and treated like sick people because of their age can be cured by a child who doesn’t see their supposedly sickness. Have you noticed how little children and our senior citizens get along together? That’s medicine. A child who really hasn’t learned how to be afraid can give a dying person the will to live.

Sometimes a baby who hasn’t learned to be afraid and can see you and not what you look like can heal you. We need to give our doctors more training and not let what they know now be erased. We need more doctors who can heal with love

Our Black and our White communities seem to come in two different packages. As Black people we seem to be artistic and our African heritage seem to be more mind oriented. We’ve used our mindful skills as many learned their jobs. Apprenticeship or student work came first. We also have many needlework, drawing, music and writing skills. In our slavery and inequality we seemed to use our minds more because intellectual education was not an opportunity. Our neighbors, the White population were given recognition for the intellectual part of our communities. Also they were recognized as being the financial bucket in this Country. America seemed to be theirs as if they bought it with money. I often tell myself: “democrats give it to you. Republicans take it from you. I feel like the Black community has many leadership skills. Many of our Black leaders have helped put this U.S.A. together. We have just learned how to take a back seat. Even though in today’s world we tend to speak up. Are the bias we have against each other based on dislike or just the differences in heritage

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