If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. – Zora Neale Hurston   If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were rising against me, I could hide. But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship at the house of God, as we walked about among the worshipers.  Psalm 55: 12-14   You heard my people reviled and you said nothing. You saw my brother killed and you did not lift your voice. You winked at the author of my persecution. I protested the hate-sword in…

“ He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

Love up on your neighbor Like you do you I mean ALL my dear sheep Yes, those people too   Just who is this uppity And where is he from That son of a “b” Is that Nazareth bum   Go help out the poor Welcome the aliens you see Love the ones under lock ‘Cause ALL sheep be me   He has a demon He’s drunk That boy ain’t right in the head   Quick! Hand me my rites Plug ‘em deep in my ear. Or those pleas for mercy Perchance I might hear   This woman she came Great healing to seek From sick I made free Now…

Love begins with humility.  Honesty is the core of humility.  There is no love without relationship. Love necessitates an object. Love demands a demonstration. Distance of heart, mind, or proximity does not suffice. It has become popular to say that Christians should not get involved in politics. The trouble with that is that we have relegated so many love objects to politics. I understand that we do not want to get embroiled in “civilian pursuits” as the definitive answer to all ills. One problem is that we have divorced Spirit from our decision-making process. I don’t mean static things like posting the Ten Commandments, or the ritual of saying prayers…