I'm Black and I'm proud.
I was born in the United States of America.
I am however challenged to live fully in my beautiful black skin in the United States of America and heartily declare "I'm proud to be an American."
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Seeing What's Real (Embracing Spirit Filled Life)
Yesterday I found (and read) the diary I started in 1985. As I read through the pages I was amazed at what I lived through, but even more amazed with the evidence that I have had twenty six years of unresolved issues. As a young person who literally "grew up" in the church I religiously listened to my spiritual leadership and blindly accepted what they taught. I got saved, began attempting to proselytize friends and family members to keep them from ending up up in hell. While I still profess faith in Jesus and attempt to live out that faith in relationship with every person, creature, and aspect of creation in meaningfully healthy ways, I am most certainly not the same. What happened? I got older, went to seminary (twice) and began studying on my own, I began realizing that blindly following anyone is a surefire way to lose sight of what real.
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