A Voice In Ramah

With full appreciation of Langston Hughes’ prophetic words in his poem “Kids Who Die” written in 1938 to a nation hell-bent on killing Black children, I’m changing one word as an angry pissed-off plea in 2017 unto the God who surely sees it all.

Family: Chicago teen found dead in Rosemont hotel freezer – Chicago Tribune

““I did not raise you to cry,” my father would say when I fell off my bike, as he poured rubbing alcohol on my bloody 6-year-old knees. Not hydrogen peroxide — alcohol. Whenever I cried, which was usually when I did not get an A on a math test or saw a lost-dog poster or…

From Robin Meyer’s UNDERGROUND CHURCH: Heaven’s Imperial rule is like leaven that a woman took and concealed in three measures of flour until it was all leavened. —MATTHEW 13:33 (KJV) “Not only do we live in the Empire. The Empire lives in us. … But in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, our Teacher and…

“‪I’ve been firing up a long time for my journey, but now I’m almost home. God has shown me the Golden Chariot. Arouse, awake, sleep no more; Jesus does all things well.” After a moment’s hesitation, she continued: “Tell the women to stand together, for God will never forsake us.” Harriet Tubman, reported by Mrs.…

From Pastor Brown via my friend Robina Winbush…. A Prayer for Mother’s Day Eternal God, on this day we lift up mothers to you. You, O Lord, are the one “who, from our mothers’ arms, hath blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.” Scripture has prepared us…

I believe in God who created the world not ready made like a thing that must forever stay what it is who does not govern according to eternal laws that have perpetual validity nor according to natural orders of poor and rich, expert and ignoramuses, people who dominate and people subjugated. I believe in God…

May all who are running from the terror in their familiarity find blessed refuge. May all who stand on the shores of “safe places”…just move one step over to the left and make room for God.