As you engage in the holiday season, you can’t help but
to stop and reflect upon the past year. It is a time for family, friends, and
focusing, not only on the past, but also dreaming about the future. The holiday
season brings memories of great times, as well as memories of times that weren’t
so great, signifying an end to another year. Whatever the memories you hold and
focus on during the holidays, it is always great to know that you still have
today; which means you still have choices, a voice, and control of your life’s
direction!
I know that sometimes you wonder whether you have been
living in a parallel universe, a time warp, or in a bad dream that seems to
conflict with what you see as your reality. And you probably don’t know whether
you want to remain asleep or to wake up and face what you have dreaded for
sometime…our country is seemingly on the brink of self-collapse. Normality has
been out of the question for far too long and so-called leaders from the far left
are out of control, out of sync with the rest of the country, and they brazenly
espouse their negativity, hatred, anger, and isms onto the poor, the weak, and
those different from themselves. Many of these people are gravely misdirected,
out of control, and filled with hate.
Although the holidays
are a time for taking your sharing and caring to heightened levels with family
and friends, the reality of the past year still looms heavily over many of you,
your families, your friends, your neighbors, and your coworkers. Not only has
this year seemed as if it was a never-ending dream or nightmare, it also seemed
as if it was an endless reality show. It has been one of the most difficult
years for many of you, especially politically. It has been a time like no
other, fraught with unpredictable changes, uncertainty, difficulties, disappointments,
sadness, fear, and feelings of bitterness for many of you.
I have heard many of you express your feelings about the
seeming dark cloud hanging over your heads. There has been a an ugliness of
hatred encouraged against people who are different in their color, their race,
their national origin, their sex, their sexual orientation, and their social
status. The great thing is that because of the love deep within your hearts and
your souls, many of you have become brave souls, unwilling to participate in
the discrimination, racism, sexism, and classism espoused by too many of the
misdirected within our country.
Although you have love in your hearts and souls, many of
you are fearful of the repercussions associated with the outcome of the
presidential election. And for many more, these fears have become your reality,
bringing about a multitude of individuals who are bold, bodacious, ignorant,
self-serving, selfish, controlling, racist, sexist, xenophobic, and homophobic,
wreaking havoc on the lives of innocent children, individuals, and families.
I, too, have recently experienced the hatred and racism, in
my family, when a white man driving recklessly on the highway sideswiped the
car of my son-in-law. When my son-in-law pulled behind the man after he pulled
over, thinking they would have a man-to—man respectful conversation, exchanging
license and insurance information. However, the man pulled a gun on my
son-in-law, using expletives and other negative words, threatening to blow his
m*****f****** rains out! Thank God my son-in-law had presence of mind to remain
on the line with 911, as he remembered the car tag number and make and model of
the car, after it sped off. And who is this man of hatred and racism? He is a
high school teacher, and a coach in one of the public schools in our country.
And this is just a drop in the bucket of the hatred being put forth in our
schools by the Great Game Player and Manipulator.
These haters have taken off their white robes and pointed
hats, as they walk around in Brooks Brothers, Michael Kors, and Armani Exchange
suits, or their red bottom shoes, and Gucci purses. They are coming out in
massive proportions, given permission to hate, lie, cheat, and disrespect
others, by the Great Game Player and Manipulator, whose name I choose not to
give power to by mentioning it here.
It is imperative during the holiday season for you to
begin to take an introspective look at your reality and how it fits with the
reality of what is taking place in our country. It is hard to keep loving and
showing love when thee is a pervasive acceptance of and proliferation of hate
by many of those in power, in the media, and in other positions of influence,
especially the newly designated Great Game Player and Manipulator.
These people tend to spread hate, instead of love, often
because they are empty souls walking in the midst of you, your families, and me.
The holiday season is a time for you to decide to live, forgive, and let go. No
matter what is going on around you and outside of you, you are ultimately in
control of what goes on within you. If you allow the hate of those empty souls
to destroy your self-love and your love for others, you are then destroyed as
an individual. You relinquish your power and control to fools. You CANNOT allow
this to happen. God has already
designated your purpose and your destiny.
The holiday season can also help you begin to see the
love that can exist in the midst of the hatred being spewed throughout the
country and the world. You can then come to realize that no matter how these people
see you, what they think about you, no matter what negative names they call
you, no matter who leads the country, no matter what you have or don’t have,
everything starts and ends with you. There is always an opportunity for you to
rise above your disappointments, the hate, the anger, and all of the other
negative things that come your way. You have one of the greatest weapons within
you that CAN and WILL combat all of the mess that is thrown your way. That weapon
is called LOVE!
The holidays are supposed to be a time of peace within
and throughout, as well as a time for you to increase your offering of goodwill
to all. However, the reality is that peace is evasive on many levels, all
because the Great Game Player and Manipulator has declared war, fueled by
hatred, discrimination, racism, and sexism. If there is any time that you must
pull out your weapon of love, it is now! As they denigrate you, try to decimate
you, try to destroy your will and your way, castigate you, you must continue to
stand on the solid foundation of love; love for yourself and for others.
And no matter how people treat you, your inner love and
inner peace will not allow you to succumb to the mess and the stress associated
with hate, bigotry, discrimination, racism, sexism, classism, and all of the
other isms. As a matter of fact, you are a soldier in the army of love, wishing
only the best for those who hate you, despise you, as well as those who wish
ill toward you. This holiday season is your season of inner and outer peace;
peace that you will share with others in order to combat the negativity that
seems to have a hold on many in our country. Your love and your peace CANNOT be
taken from you unless you compromise them or give them away!
Yes, I know it’s hard to keep loving in the midst of the
hate that you experience each and every day of your life, especially if you are
a person of color, a female, a person of a different sexual orientation, are an
immigrant, or you have different religious beliefs. But you CAN and you MUST
stay on the path of love! There is hope! And if there was a way in, there MUST
be a way out! All hope is not lost. Exodus 3:7-9:
7
And
the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are
in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows;
And
I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring
them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with
milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Now
therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I
have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Come
now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth
my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
I am sure you are wondering how you can “Keep Loving In
the Midst of Hate,” as well as what you can do until you and your family and
loved ones are delivered out of the hands of the Great Game Player and
Manipulator. Here are some steps to help you:
1. Recognize that there is spiritual warfare going on.
2. Don’t be afraid to talk about the situation, your reality, and your
feelings with family, loved ones, and other TRUSTED souls.
3. Pray each day without ceasing for guidance, direction, protection,
meaning, and understanding.
4. Meditate daily in order to grow deeper in your spirituality.
5. Pray and use oral positive self-talk to remove FEAR…False, Evidence,
Appearing, REAL. FEAR manifests into a sense of hopelessness, which then manifests
into a sense of helplessness. When you are hopeless and helpless, you become
POWERLESS, unable to see and think clearly, truly being defeated!
6. Manage your emotions, especially your anger! Anger also clouds your
thinking, bringing about irrational thoughts and misdirection. President Barack
Obama was one of the greatest models of anger management in the midst of hate.
7. Demand a ZERO TOLERANCE policy when it comes to discrimination, bigotry,
racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance, and
other forms of isms and hatred.
8. Pray and meditate each day for discernment and revelation so that you
will be able to recognize those serving in the army of the Great Game Player and
Manipulator.
9. Engage in daily journaling in order for you to behold the patterns of
your thoughts and your feelings. This process will also provide an outlet for
you to release some of the pain associated with the consistent hatred,
maltreatment, and mistreatment that you, your family members, or other loved
ones are experiencing on a daily basis.
10. Pray for the Great Game Player and Manipulator, as well as his
followers, for God to deliver you, your family, and your loved ones out of
their hands, exposing them and bringing them down.
11. Forgive and let go of your ill feelings, because they will cause you to
either implode or explode. Let go and let God.
12. Decide how you will positively become involved in a cause and/or
movement that will bring awareness to others and help them to proactively deal
with the hatred being espoused in this country.
13. KEEP THE FAITH, KEEP BELIEVING, and KEEP TRUSTING IN GOD, RECOGNIZING
THAT GOD HAS THE LAST WORD!!!
I challenge you to take a stand and a stance of LOVE,
demanding and receiving peace in the midst of turmoil. You CAN and you WILL
move forward! The love in you CAN and WILL allow you to move forward. Hold on
and hang in there; there IS a light at the end of the tunnel; it is in the form
of PEACE and LOVE!! Love WILL win over
hate! YOU ARE LOVE; YOU ARE THE LIGHT!
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