DUST, DIPPERS, WATER

                       

      Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

 Before I begin to pour out my soul in this blog page, I want to take this time to thank God.

 As we enter into this season of giving, I'm thanking God for so many things. 

If I was to start naming things that I thank him for, I would undoubtedly, leave a great portion of things out. Because I am unaware of all the things he does for me. All I know is that he is, forever, working behind the scenes on my behalf and on the behalf of all his children(key word: children). He is, forever, opening doors for me that I am unable to see. He is, constantly, keeping his hands of  protection and mercy all around me and those that I love. 

Right now at this very moment, all my needs or met.

 Further, I am also assured, that he is about to release blessings in my favor greater than I could ever think or imagine.   

 How can I be so assured? 

I'm assured because I stay connected to God via his spirit.

 I strive to live my life, on a daily basis, proving to "the God that created and developed me in the womb" that I appreciate the manifestation of his powerful, wise, and intelligent spirit intervening in all my daily affairs by ordering my thoughts, steps, and actions.

I can never thank God enough for his consistent and constant spiritual presence in my life.

He persistently reminds me that I have been regenerated into a spiritual being having a human experience.
I am no longer a human being following a powerless religious dogma and belief that has lulled - too many of us - to sleep.

 Rebirth has awakened my dark and dull understanding of who and what God really is and what is required of me to stay connected to the source of all life.

I am forever thankful and mindful of the fact that, so easily, my life could have taken another turn or twist.

For example:

I remember Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Hospital in St. Louis Missouri.(a.k.a the crazy house)

As a child growing up in the 50's and 60's, I remember all too well, Malcolm Bliss being the place where people with mental health issues and psychiatric concerns went or were taken for care. Every once in a while I would overhear someone saying, "They took him to Malcolm Bliss: Needless to say, you seldom heard about them coming back. And if they did come back, they were never quite the same.

Some people didn't belong there.

Some may have behaved in an irrational manner one day and found themselves swept away to Malcolm Bliss for financial gain. Because in those days, when poverty was at an all time high, who ever admitted/committed you would receive a stipend for turning you in.

While, on the other-hand -  some  most definitely - needed to be restrained from commingling with other ["normal"] city residents. Why?  Because they had proven that they could not live peacefully and honorably in civilization.

Currently, there are  not many - if any - such facilities any where in the country adequately equipped to properly care for and restrain, such an enormous amount, of adults and children suffering with "mental illnesses and disease."

Unfortunately, due to political oversight, or by intent and design, people in desperate need of psychiatric care have become our neighbors.

They live in our communities, they work beside us, they share the highways with us, they use public transportation, they move freely in our shopping malls and grocery stores, they are in our military, on our police departments, in our jails and prisons(guards and inmates), and {God help us} they are holding positions in our schools, hospitals, and places of worship.

In the 1970's, if you were a person with virtually, no conscience, connections, cash, and you had a desire to make a plethora of money, you could purchase a 55 gallon drum of Phencyclidine (PCP), also known as angel dust, dippers, or water for around $25,000 - $35,000 dollars.

The DEA determined that individuals trafficking in PCP derived a gross income from their initial investment to be in the millions of dollars, depending on how the product was dispensed.

 In 1978, People Magazine and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes, called PCP the country's "number one" drug problem.

Why?

Mainly because of the psychological effects consistent with the short term use and long term mental disabilities associated with the use of the drug. Effects including but not limited to:
 - severe changes in body image
 - loss of ego boundaries
 - paranoia                                                                       

 - depersonalization
 - hallucinations
 - homicide and suicide impulses
 - aggressive behavior, altered mood states, and an unpredictable, unnatural physical strength.

Studies indicates that there is an extremly high rate of irreversible loss of brain function attributed to chronic users of PCP in any shape, form or fashion.

I would be lying if I said that, prior to my federal incarceration in 1986 for cocaine trafficking, I didn't sample PCP as a potential business venture. In my pursuit to obtain a fortune - by any means necessary - I had to know - first hand - the effect of the product that I was contemplating investing in.

I would also be lying if I said I sampled it more than once.

Why? Because once was enough!!!!!

Why? Primarily, because I never wanted to be THAT HIGH!!!!!!

Thank God he never let me have the mind to want to be "so high" on narcotics or alcohol that I wasn't conscience of my whereabouts and surroundings.

Further, I couldn't comprehend or stomach the devastation and havoc I saw PCP having in our neighborhoods and communities. Therefore, I opted out of it being part of my entrepreneurship in narcotics.

 Cocaine was bad enough; but at least it originated from a naturally growing plant/leaf and was not concocted in a factory or laboratory somewhere.

Today, you can walk into any convenience store, tobacco shop, or head shop and purchase(cheap, real cheap) Synthetic cannabinoids or sometimes - misleadingly - referred to as synthetic marijuana.

Synthetic cannabinoids has the same - no actually - a worse effect on humans beings than PCP ever had. Why? Because synthetic cannabinoids has proven to induce cannibalism in its users.

Yet, you can buy it............ right over the counter or on-line.

Recently, it has been reported that the drug is being given away to homeless residents in St. Louis and other major cities in hope that the users will kill each other. Rumor has it that the "new age urban loft dwellers" don't want them(the homeless) hanging around blighting their communities and entertainment venues so they are handing out "death packets" for free.

Something is seriously amiss in amerikkka. And considering who the current POTUS is.......things are only going to get worse....much worse.....before they get better.

If you don't know God......you better get to know him.......soon.

Marvel not, ye must be born again!!!!

                                                                       TG4RG

" I SAID I WASN'T GONNA WRITE "NO-MORE" BLOGS LIKE THIS".............

 This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sigh be given it; but the sign of Jonas the prophet. For as Jonas was a sigh unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. 

Jonah, regarded as the reluctant prophet, is the only one, of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, to be mentioned in all three major religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

 According to the historical writings, Jonah refused to follow the command of God to go to Nineveh, a city in Assyria on the river Tigris opposite Mosul in Iraq (ancient Africa) and preach repentance to the Gentiles.

God demanded that the Gentiles repent "because their great wickedness is come up before me."  Jonah, instead seeks to flee from the presence of the Lord. He did not believe that the Gentiles should be given a chance for repentance, salvation and redemption. He felt that they only needed to be judged and condemned for their errors, wickedness, and evil ways.

 The story says that for his disobedience Jonah was confined in the belly of a gigantic fish until he was compelled to "repent ecstatically" for his attempted deviation from his calling.

In the end, Jonah did exactly what God wanted him to do and God did exactly what He always does for those that repent.......He had mercy upon them and  forgave them.

This act of kindness toward the Gentiles angered Jonah to the utmost...in fact he prayed to God, "I beseech thee, take my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." Jonah would rather be buried in his grave then to see the children of wrath forgiven for their evil and wicked deeds.

 God referred to the Gentiles as a people who's heart, mind and soul was so bound by Satan that they could not discern the difference between their right hand and their left.

 Still, if they would turn from their wicked ways, and repent, they had a right to be a part of the family of God ........... just like the Hebrew children.

God has a plan. Further, he always has a man to implement His plan .

He always has somebody, whom He calls, chooses, qualifies, and then sends to inform the wicked what they must do to avoid falling into the path and wrath of a vengeful, and just.... Almighty God.

Historical writings indicate that "many are called but only a few are chosen." And the one chosen never wants to do the job.

Why?

Because the chosen one already knows that God is Merciful.

He already knows that if the wicked will turn from their evil ways, repent, and strive to live a godly lifestyle,  that God will "have mercy" on them and save them from the wrath that is "sure" to come to this disobedient and evil generation.

 Righteous behavior and obedience earns the favor of God.

Gods man already knows that.

But, sometimes, Gods man gets tired and when Gods man gets tired........God Himself gets tired too.

 Gods man gets tired of seeing the real savages, "satans imps" avoid justice for all the evil and madness they have perpetrated against the children of God. He then petitions to God to withhold His mercy and instead enter into the season of judgement.

Gods man then begins to call for, and pray for, the emergence of "the other" side of God.

The "flip side."

The side no one wants to talk about or see coming.       

The wrath of God.

The side God unleashes when He gets tired of our foolishness and also gets tired of the wickedness of others.

NBC NEWS reported recently that diplomatic efforts between the United States and Iran are in peril.

The POTUS has increased his public attacks on The Middle East. "Surrender without a fight or surrender with a fight" is the current message coming out of the White House.

Do we see where mankind is heading?                                                Apparently not.

"I said I wasn't gonna write "no-more" blogs like this."

Why?

Because its obvious that God is getting our attention, but we have "stopped caring and listening."

It appears that the people have no fear of God.  It would be safe to say that the masses don't actually believe that there are consequences for disobedience to God and also for disobedience to Gods man.

Therein lies much of the problem ....... we can't discern "who" Gods man is?

Why?

Primarily, because we don't want to and because we are looking in the wrong places.

Gods man - just like Jonah - really doesn't "want" to be the instrument that God uses to manifest the truth.

However, he has to.

He has no choice.

Because its not about him and what he wants....its about glorifying  God and His Creation.

So you won't find Gods man surrounded by a crowd........because the crowd really doesn't want to hear the truth.

But the spiritual wickedness in this world is propelling righteousness to come forth and creation will have to lift him up for the world to see.

I said I wasn't gonna write no more blogs like this.

No more blogs about racist people "knockin us down, shootin us down and then kickin us" when we down.

 No more blogs about the deaths of black men and women at the hands of the police.

No more blogs about the black "two legged animals" terrorizing the residents, and especially, the senior citizens in our own neighborhoods. No more blogs about black people, killin' other black people, just for being black people.

No more blogs about the new/not new Prison Industrial Complex or the grade school to prison pipeline, or the institutional and systematic racism so prevalent within the criminal "unjust" system.

No more blogs about, "despite historically high unemployment rates and gross poverty in amerikkka,   Blacks have shown resiliency in their ability to PERSEVERE AS CONSUMERS.'

                                                                    WHAT!!!!!!!!!

Yes......black people don't produce anything as a unit, as a collective, as a group drawn together by common bonds -  like every other culture in this country has done - all we do is consume.

It's expected that $1.3 trillion dollars will be spent by blacks in amerikkka in 2018.

 I wonder what would happen if we didn't spend it?

"I said I wasnt gonna write no-more blogs like this'................I lied.

Marvel not....ye must be born again..........TG4RG

                                                  #BOYCOTTAMERIKKKA

                                         Gil Scott Heron........Message To The Messengers

FANTASY ISLAND

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

FANTASY ISLAND is an American television series that originally aired on the ABC network from 1977 to 1984. It starred the mysterious Mr. Roarke and his energetic small person sidekick, Tattoo.

For a price, ( about $196,000 in current US dollars) you could have any fantasy fulfilled. 

Tattoo became famous for ringing the bell and shouting "Da plane! Da plane!" to announce the arrival of a new set of guests at the beginning of each episode.

Fantasies differed.

They could be harmless like reuniting with a loved one or serious like tracking down the murderers of your family. Often, the fantasy would take an unexpected turn and proceed down a quite different path than the guest expected.

Mainly, because Mr. Roarke had a strong moral code and was normally always merciful to his guest. He was always trying to teach them an important life lesson.

For example, say someone wanted to travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921 to view the successful black Greenwood community dubbed, "Black Wall Street."

 For a price, you could witness the race-riot that destroyed the community. You could be witness to -- one of the many -- mob actions in America --- normally brewed by a white women making a statement about a black man.

Watching it all unfold right before your eyes would be devastating enough.

But in your conscience mind you would be remembering all of the information that came out of a Congressional Investigation about the massacre on" Black Wall Street" years later.

Information like:  all 35 blocks of Greenwood were burned to the ground leaving about 10,000 black people homeless, more than 300 black people were killed, and homes and businesses were looted before they were destroyed.

Reports indicate that there were millions of dollars in property damage and about 6,000 black residents of Tulsa were detained in public facilities like the baseball stadium.

Standing there you would be aware that the real horror in it all was that, bombs were dropped - allegedly - to quell the riots.

The St. Louis Argus Newspaper, on June 10, 1921, reported that "The Negroes held their own until about 6 o'clock in the morning when a fierce attack was made upon them from the hill by cannons, and airplanes soared over the Negro section dropping fire on their houses." J.W. Hughes, principal of Dunbar Grade School wrote a statement that said that "at five o'clock a whistle was blown, seven aeroplanes were flying over the colored district..."

One unidentified newspaper account from June 12, 1921, alleged that, "The planes used during the riot which set fire to brick buildings are owned by the United States Government."

Wow!!!

That unbelievable drama happened in 1921. True reality not fantasy.  Fast forward to today.

Today the POTUS, Donald Trump, is the "Fantasy Island" Master of Amerikkka. Madness is running rampant. Satan...like a wounded beast, is on the loose.

And as horrendous as  the massacre of Black Wall Street was, it pale's in comparison to the mayhem that is yet to come. Presently, hundreds of thousands of American government workers are laid off. Or, even worse,  many are being forced to work without being paid, because the POTUS wants to build a wall on our southern border.

To coin a phrase from the past, "weaintseennuttinyet."

Even a blind man can see that our demise is imminent if we don't, atone, repent, unite, and prepare.

But before its all over, I'd love to take my turn with Mr Roarke and Tattoo on Fantasy Island.

My fantasy is going to be The Second Coming of Christ......... "I'M GOING TO BE THE CHRIST"

The second coming should not be confused with the event referred to as the Rapture. The church holds many positions on the rapture, but the Second Coming is undisputed.

The Second Coming is the event when Christ returns to the earth, manifested in flesh, the Son of The Living God, to defeat evil and establish His reign of truth, judgment, justice, freedom, and peace.

The days of God extending mercy will be over...........            Judgement will begin..........

Marvel not, ye must be born again.

                                                                         TG4RG

                 

CANAAN U.S.P.

                             "Out of Egypt have I called my son"

USA........Most people when they hear or see the word Canaan they are reminded of the Biblical Hebrew account of the land promised by God to Abraham. Eventually, God delivers - the land flowing with milk and honey - to the descendants of Abraham, the Israelites.  

Canaan was a region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. Typically, Western biblical scholarship has included ancient Canaan as part of a so called Middle East.

However, the ancient authors of the Bible had no such racial bias against Africa and ancient Canaan was generally understood in antiquity to be an extension of the continent of Africa.

(There was no Suez Canal artificially separating Africa from those lands to the East).

So, when the parents of Yeshua(Jesus) The Christ were in fear for the life of their son, it was only natural for them to take the well-traveled route of escape to Egypt in Africa.

To this day the biblical history has become increasingly problematic as the archaeological, linguistic, and textual evidence supports and interprets the idea that the early Israelites were in fact themselves Canaanites. The Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah represented a subset of Canaanite culture.

During the Atlantic slave trade, many Christians began teaching that black Africans were descendants of Canaan Land and used the Curse of Ham to justify enslaving black Africans.

Up until 1978, The Mormon Church continued to deny access to their priesthood to Africans, because of the so-called curse.

Presently, according to the Mormon Church, the curse is no longer valid, the curse against people of color has been lifted. 

Well, the curse may have been lifted in theory but not in practice.

Today, over 1,500 hundred, mostly black and Hispanic men, are on a 23-hour a day lock-down at Canaan United States Penitentiary, in Canaan Township, Wayne County, near Waymart, Pennsylvania.

How ironic that Canaan....instead of becoming heaven has become hell......on earth for people of color.

All visiting and phone communication at the high security prison has been suspended until further notice. Sources confirm that all the inmates are currently confined in a 13x7 feet - two man cells. The prison was designed to occupy 1,088 prisoners but the count is well above that limit and growing. The state of Pennsylvania has a total of three high security federal prisons while some states, such as Missouri, don't have any federal prisons. Yet, in Missouri, they have over 20 state prisons. Apparently, - the show me state - wants to keep full control over operations of their prisons and prisoners.

The high rate of incarceration in this country, combined with the reports of cruel and unusual punishment taking place inside modern prisons may not mean anything to most people. There are those that feel that if you are in prison.....you did something wrong to get there. You deserve it.

Not necessarily so.

According, to a report published by the National Registry of Exoneration, a record number of people were exonerated in 2015 for crimes they didn't commit. Countless numbers of men and women, separated and removed from their loved ones, many, for nothing other than being the right color at the wrong time. Those cleared last year, had an average of 14.5 years spent in prison on false charges. Some on death row. Some were younger than 18 when they were convicted. Others had intellectual disabilities.

For a person that has never been incarcerated it's difficult to wrap your mind around the madness that occurs in prison but try, if you will, to envision this:

Can you imagine all the rape, murder, drugs, gambling, extortion, perversion, religion, gangs, politics, corruption, and abuse that we witness first hand, or are shown happening in this country through media outlets, all unfolding on your block and in your neighborhood..........with no police protection present?

Can you imagine, living, all day and all night, in a space not much bigger than a bathroom, with an individual that cant stand the sight of you, and you cant stand the sight of them either?

Try to imagine laying down with your head being 12 inches from a shared toilet in a prison built in the early 1900's? Or vision having a child while incarcerated and the stress associated with that?

How about adding some extreme heat, or bitter cold?

How about an infestation of roaches, rats, bed bugs, lice, crabs, unknown viruses, mold, unrecognizable food items, and top it all off with overt displays of racism by the prison staff and life has just gotten really, really serious for you.

In fact, it has become so serious, you have daily thoughts of homicide or suicide.

America has a serious problem.......systemic racism is at the root.

The current US Attorney General is positioned to deploy federal troops into the inner-cities to stem the violence while prisons are already busting at the seams. The present nucleus of oppressed people in this country are being pushed into a corner.

Poor people have no options but to fight back.

No amount of money, prestige, culture, or friendships will be able to protect the masses when the pendulum begins to swing.

If you don't have an active, personal, relationship with the Most High God right now.......I suggest you get one..........soon.

In the 1930's, POTUS Franklin D. Roosevelt introduce to this country a domestic agenda called the "New Deal."  In 1964, POTUS Lyndon B. Johnson promised us a "Great Society."  POTUS Donald Trump has promised to "Make America Great Again."

All of them have made claims to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, address education, provide medical care, and terminate oppression and depression.

It appears that the more things change.....the more they stay the same. And the worse is yet to come.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                     TG4RG

                                "HARVEST FOR THE WORLD".......The Isley Brothers

"IT'S OUR FIRST DAY ON THE NEW JOB!"

                                                                           

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

ST. LOUIS MO..... Newlyweds, Christopher Watkins and Tonya Gonzalez-Suarez, never knew what hit them.

 In the twinkling of an eye their souls departed their physical bodies and they were swept away to stand before The Righteous Judge and give an account of everything they had done in their physical bodies.....while they had the time.

The couple was killed when a boiler exploded at the Loy-Lange Box Co., went airborne and came crashing down through the roof of Faultless Healthcare Linen Co. - some 500 feet away -. The couple was filling out paperwork to start The New Job.

We are all going to leave here. There is no parking down here. We didn't come here to stay. Dying is inevitable . Obviously, we all know this.

 Since death is assured, the conversation has to be, not if we die, but how we die, and also how we choose to live.

Seeing that no one knows the exact time or day when our spirit will be sucked away from us, thoughtful individuals may be pondering the question, is it better to live a life following vain thoughts and participating in vain deeds or is it far better to follow righteous dictates of the heart?

Should we be living a life treating everybody exactly like we want to be treated or should we care less about others, and their feelings?

Realizing that at any minute, any second, BREATH, can be snatched away from us, just because the God that created us feels like snatching our breath away, should make us all more caring for one another.

You would think that because we don't get to decide our day of death, that should be, reason enough for us to chose righteousness over unrighteousness, peace over war, love over hate, humbleness over vanity, and truth over lies, everyday, in all our daily affairs.

 It would appear that once we realize and recognize who is in complete control of this whole world and everybody in it we would gain a new prospective, a new outlook, concerning life and living.

It would seem that after we grow into the knowledge and understanding that God is a spirit that operates in truth - through people - we would make some major adjustments in our behavior, conduct, and character.

 Certainly, once we reach that enlightened stage of development in our thinking.... our actions will change.

 Spiritual growth demands that we step out of religious practices and start to walk into our righteous mind..... we return to a God mind.

Everything that God has created or made obeys God, except humans. 

Humans are the only living creature on the planet that deviates from the ordained ordinances of it's Creator.

Religion, instead of being  a tool to be used to guide us back to God, instead of being used to guide us to a point of conversion where we evolve into the God we are professing, has made us slaves to the practice of religion, and not replica's of the God we claim to know. 

In historical Hebrew writings ascribed to the Apostle Paul, he makes it abundantly clear that once we reach that pinnacle and pedestal of evolution our spiritual selves desire to abandon this life, because we have reached the peak where our only desire is to become reconnected, totally, with the Creator.

We become human and divine and we stay in our physical form only for the benefit of others.  We live our lives only to help God's people which are lost - find the way - and to edify those that have made a righteous decision to live born again lives with a renewed mind and consciousness.

According to people that knew Christopher Watkins, 46, and Tonya Gonzales-Suarez, 43, they were inseparable. A triumphant duo always striving to do a little good, whenever and wherever, they could.

They had both gone through years of drama and disappointments in there lives but the start of the new year gave them new found hope. They were best friends, who fell in love, got married, and dedicated their lives to be like Christ. They didn't talk too much about the problems that they had which led them to the church program, instead they focused on how far they had come in recent months.

The church member who told them about the New Job opportunity was filling out his paperwork also when the "bomb-like boiler" came crashing through the roof. He was in critical condition......he lived one more day....then he died.

Tonya was so proud that she and her husband hand landed the New Jobs. She even posted a picture on Facebook moments before they went inside the facility with the words, "It's Our First Day On The New Job!" 

Wow.....not really. 

They had been making earthly preparations for a heavenly occupation for a long, long, time.

Ironically, early on the Friday morning following their transition,  the US military fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at the Shayrat air field in response to a suspected chemical attack that week that had been widely blamed on the Damascus regime.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that the POTUS is taking a "get tuff attitude" with Syria and he really doesn't care what Russia's military think about it.

Sounds like war is on the horizon.

Taking into account all the perpetual evil and darkness engulfing this present world who wouldn't desire to be swept away to a better place to be with God? No matter where that place is perceived to be in your own mind; tell me who wouldn't want to go?

I want to go.

Don't get me wrong, I ain't in no hurry to go....I just want to go. Whenever and wherever God calls, I just want to be ready when he calls my name.

And you know what? I am ready.

How do I know? Because I live like I'm ready.                                                

And the good thing is that if I continue to make preparations, day by day, minute by minute, and moment by moment, to stay ready.......... I can go.

I'm living so I can be ready for "My First Day On The New Job."

Further more, I have enough knowledge about our Creator to know that as long as I stay embedded in truth and righteousness I can go instantaneously.

I can go just like Christopher and Tanya; or like Martin Luther King, or Malcolm X, or Medger Evers, or the Rev. Andrew Lee Smith. I can even die like Christ.

Marvel not: ye must be born again.

                                                                    TG4RG

                                         

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MISSIO DEI (sending of God)

 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Missio Dei is a Latin Christian theological term that can be translated as the "mission of God," or the "sending of God." 

According to theologian, David J. Bosch, "mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God."  Our mission has not life of its own: only in the hands of the sending God can it truly be called mission. 

Mission is thereby seen as a movement from God to the world; the church is viewed as an instrument for that mission. There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. 

Therefore, the mission of the church is up-lifting fallen humanity through service to the least of those in the community. 

While, at the same time, edifying those members that have made a conscience decision to repent, atone, and  make a turn-about in their daily living and accept righteousness as God's mission and purpose for their life to restore themselves and help heal all of Gods creation.

Further, the goal of the gospel is not to preach Jesus(Yeshua) to the lost but to be an example of the revolutionary message and mission of Christ in action. 

How?

 Through a demonstration of love, justice, righteousness, spirit and truth exemplified and manifested in human form - in our own societies and neighborhoods - and in the cultures in which we find ourselves. 

Throughout all of history God has called certain people to do certain things.

All major religions, Hebrews, Muslims, and Christians acknowledge the story of Noah and the Ark -  somewhere - in their doctrine. According to holy writings it took between 74 and 120 years for Noah to secure the ark in the fashion that God required.

 Assuredly, Noah got tired, but, Noah never gave up, he attended to his mission daily. 

He was constantly building, while living an upright life, and delivering Gods message to the masses that it was, surly, going to rain........believe it or not.

However, Noah, really, didn't have an option. Building the ark was not a choice..... but a calling.

This writer of this blog doesn't have an option either.  Writing is not a choice... but a calling.

God is saying......."Build it.....they will come."

 But don't build a church.......build a service to express your passion. The passion will turn into an occupation......the occupation will produce joy and will eventually produce substance to maintain you and your family.

That's how God works. 

It ain't about you. It ain't about me.

 Its about using the gifts and skills God has given us to glorify God and all of Creation.

The passion for writing has turned into a blog, the blog has turned into a voice for a much needed change in our lives and communities, the voice has turned into an on-line, non-profit, charitable organization.

Our hope is that if you like one, or more, of our many blogs please show your appreciation by clicking the donate button on our web page. A portion of your donation will help facilitate the daily operations of a 501C3, tax-exempt, charitable organization. If you don't feel our style, point-of-view, or out-look, tell us that too, by leaving a comment on the web page.

Please understand that we are not here to build walls but, rather, to build brides to a deeper understanding of our reason for being alive.

Either way, the mission will continue because the missionary initiative comes from God alone.....writing is not a choice......it's a calling.

Founded in 1995, the ORP mission has had its successes; the hungry have been fed, shelter has been provided, lives and attitudes have been adjusted and corrected. Still, the struggle continues. How ironic, that 25 years since the incorporation of the Outkast Revolutionary Party(ORP), its voice and services are need more, today, than ever before.

Previous collaborations with organizations like the Missouri Department of Corrections, the St. Louis Juvenile Detention Center, and the St. Louis Public Schools, must be re-kindled because our neighborhoods and communities have taken on the appearance of "war zones".

 Certainly, a new more aggressive approach, is needed to curb the madness, not only in St. Louis, but in all the inner-cities in America, before the current federal government enacts their authority which could mean, among other things....martial law.

Please.....help us to help others.

The madness of the times in which we live has dictated that we must change in order to survive.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                      TG4RG

                                           Young, Gifted, and Black............Aretha Franklin

A HERO COMES ALONG

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR, THAT APPEARTH FOR A LITTLE TIME, AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY

ST. LOUIS, MO........According to the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics, 48 million surgical inpatient procedures were performed in the United States in 2009.

So what is that saying to me?

It's saying that these human bodies are falling apart and there is really nothing you can do about it. Nothing you can do to keep yourself alive. Rich people die, athletes die, vegans die, sinners die, saints die, and even children die. 

Death can possibly - in your imagination - be postponed, but inevitability.......we're all gonna die.

What is so shocking is that America has produced some of the the greatest minds the world has ever seen, yet, we lead the world in sicknesses, disease, and violence. Surly, there are many people who will agree that the primary reason for a nation as advanced as ours to be staggered with chronic illness and disease can be directly attributed to a capitalist and greedy society.

 However, some of the drama that is placed in and on our bodies is self-inflicted. 

                                                                               

We spend fortunes trying to improve on the perfect body that we were born with. We go to great lenghts to prove to God that we know whats better for our bodies than He does.

 We tattoo every inch of skin that we can find. We glue, press, burn, sew, and dye hair. We pierce and poke holes in and on our bodies in places never meant to have a hole. We spray, wipe, smear, pat, rub and inject chemicals and objects in every orifice we have and then wonder why we have problems in the womb and anus.

We digest every new "vogue" pill that comes on the market. We have to be the first to drink a gallon of the newest drink at the club. Our blunt has to be the fattest, our dope the purest, and our sex with the least protection.

Our burger has to be the biggest, our steak the rarest, and our pork-chop plate the fullest. Yet, we kaint understand how we contracted lung, breast, rectal, and prostate cancer and or heart disease.

 People we are a "hot mess."

Surly, a prudent person has to believe that there is a sadistic criminal link between hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. But the things we do to ourselves......we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Total heath care spending in America was approximately $2.7 trillion dollars in 2011. A little over 31 percent of that amount, or $814 billion, was spent on hospital services.  

The US spends almost $1,000 per person per year on pharmaceuticals. 

That's around 40 percent more than the next highest spender, Canada, and more than twice a much as countries like France and Germany spend. Overall, Americans use more medicines than every other developed country in the world, yet, we are dying at an alarming rate. 

                                                               

       

Life is killing us....one way or another.... due to the greed of others or due to our own vanity. 

Here is another example of our impending death.

The POTUS  is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a few days. Prime Minister Netanyahu has openly stated that he and the POTUS , "see eye to eye." 

However, news sources have indicated that the Prime Minister is going to take a really"get tough attitude" with the POTUS and let him know that there will be no more talk about a two state occupied territory in the Palestine region and that Israel is moving forward in their quest for total occupation of the Holy land.

                                                                          

Like him or not the POTUS is not the guy you want to "get tuff with" or bully. Not him. Please not him.

 No one is really sure just what the POTUS is capable of saying or doing.

 I can only imagine Prime Minister Netanyahu gettin loud and berating and scolding the POTUS in regards to his superiority and holiness and pointing out the POTUS lack of virtue, morals, and righteousness. 

Why the POTUS may get into one of his rants and say something like, "Oh yeah, well everybody knows that you Israeli guys ain't the original guys from over there anyway."  "You know, you know, you know, your guys took that land from the original African Hebrew guys a long time ago."

"Yeah, yeah, and that Jesus guy, his real name was Yeshua or something like that...something with a Y...at least that's what His mother and brothers called Him."  "So you see Mr. Net..... or whatever your name is.....you have plenty of dirty laundry too...so don't get so high and mighty with me." "I'll make you get out of there."

Sure this may sound crazy, but if anyone could or would have the nerve to speak truth to the power in Israel........in his own bi-polar way....it would be the current POTUS.

A truthful statement like this would not only light the fire for WWIII in the Middle East, but it would also be the start of the American Civil War II, here in this country.

Wow.     Sometimes it seems like its all just TOO MUCH. There seems to be assaults and attacks being aimed to destroy the masses of Gods people in every area and in ever aspect and direction in our lives. To some I am sure it appears that there is no hope......no possible way of navigating through the uncertainty and  apparent - uselessness - of life.

Well, I'm here to tell you that there is hope. For those of us that happen to know....without a doubt.....that God is real....there is always hope. The Most High God has proven to some of us, by His Holy Spirit, that no matter what is going on......we have an inner peace that transcends all understanding, and the satisfaction of knowing that if I stay in the fold.....in the flow of God....I kaint lose. We know that there is a hero.....and the hero lives in me.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                  TG4RG

                                                               Mariah Carey