Woman: Gods Gift

A woman is Gods gift to man; a woman is one of God’s greatest creations to walk this earth.

A woman has the capability to bear children.

A woman can be strong, intelligent, wise, compassionate, understanding, driven. A woman is God’s gift.

To all my fellas in the world: if we want women to respect themselves, then we have to respect women.

We can’t label a woman as a “ho” and expect her to have the self-esteem to envision herself as a queen.

We can’t praise a woman for her physical attributes and ignore her intellect.

We encourage women to become exotic dancers and expose their bodies for magazine spreads so million dollar companies can make millions of dollars to exploit them.

Do we ever tell women that they are God’s gift?

We judge women and tell them that their weight and their physical looks should be their main concern, but do we ever tell them that they are beautiful the way they are?

We make women believe that in order to gain a popular social status they must sleep with many well - known important men.

We need to let our women know that popularity is something that they don’t need if it causes them to give men the right to take advantage of their bodies.

We need to inform our women that piles of make up and revealing clothing don’t make them beautiful; it’s their character that is associated with their physical attributes that make them amazing.

We need to tell women to hold on to their morals and beliefs and not to ditch them to impress other men.

We need to step back and take a look at what we are doing to the women in our world.

Women are expected to handle and balance so much in life, and it is time for us as men to take some of the weight off of their shoulders.

Instead of adding to and becoming a woman’s burden, we need to help lessen the burden.

A woman is God’s gift, and it’s time to treat her like she is.

One for the week: Genesis 2:23 – The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Enough Said

This article is for people who say a lot like I use to but do little.

I want to let you all know that enough has been said.

We log into our Facebook accounts; we tweet on Twitter, and we talk about the tragic issues that are occurring in the world today.

We have conversations to express our feelings and to speak out against injustice, but then we leave it at that.

Voices provide knowledge to others about certain things. but action is what brings upon change.

We can’t just speak about the horrific events regarding Anna Brown, a woman who had life-threatening medical issues who was dragged out of a police car into a jail cell where she died because she refused to leave the hospital until she received medical attention.

We can’t just speak about the shooting death of young Trayvon Martin and expect change.

I’m not saying that we should react in rage.

I am saying that we should simply just react.

Let’s march like the great leaders before us did to bring upon change.

Let’s march like Martin Luther King Jr. when he fought to bring down the beast known as racial discrimination.

Let’s march like Ghandi when he strived to do the same.

It’s time to stop hiding behind our computers, our cell phones and other technological devices.

We need to stand up for a cause with our physical presence.

I don’t care what background people come from, what ethnicity or race an individual is, we should all be able to come together for a greater purpose because enough has been said.

Now it is time to put our words in motion to bring on change.

There is an opportunity for us to seek change March 31st at Noon people will be gathering at Martin Luther King Park to march for Trayvon Martin.

If you believe that enough has been said and now it’s time to do, then come to this event and make a difference.

I want to give a special thanks to Duke Turley for planning this event.

Come see me at the march if you would like to discuss the idea of enough being said.

One for the week:
You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. –Cornel West

Chained By Love

Value in the word love is a concept that is becoming foreign to people.

People use this word freely in everyday conversation; and, as a result, the expression behind this word diminishes.

Many of us are using the word love and not having a complete understanding about the meaning or power that the word has.

Now, young men tell young women that they love them in order to just have sex with them.

There are young women telling young men that they love them just to receive materialistic items from them.

We don’t understand how powerful this word is.

Love is caring enough about yourself to go through the process of getting tested and making your partner doing the same.

Love is mother working with her last bit of energy to secure a promising future for her children.

Love is parents holding their children accountable for the decisions they make and teaching them about the value of respect.

It isn’t the boy that gets a girl pregnant and walks away from his responsibility.

It isn’t a drug dealer supporting the habits of people that are allowing addictions to have control over their lives.

Love is more then a word it is security, its real, and it’s something that has value.

It is ok to be chained by love as long as it’s real and meaningful.

A person shouldn’t love someone because it sounds good; a person should love someone because he / she means it.

Love is doing the exact opposite of what it should be doing these days because many of us young people are confused when it comes to the meaning of love.

It hurts me to conduct a small research and discover that an imitation of love is killing people.

This imitation of love is causing people to navigate away from real love.

We cannot continue to be chained by this idea of what we think love is; we have to know that love is real before we pursue it.

One for the week: We can’t keep deceiving ourselves because if we do we will become our own oppressors.