Do You..
Ain’t no need to worry. Things are already working out for your good! All you have to do is believe. Believe in yourself and all of the gifts that God has given you. Count it all joy when things look like it’s about to, “crash and burn.” Be patient with what you’re asking for. Know that your request is on the way. Seek happiness always, and don’t look back. I always think about Lot and his wife when they were escaping from Sodom & Gomorrah. The story is in Genesis 19, in the Bible. What we know is that her instructions was to “Not look back” or she would “turn into a pillar of salt.” But I always think about WHY she looked back? What was it back there that she was still attached to, when God was clearly and aggressively removing her from a toxic environment that she was going to die in had she stayed? What are some things that happened in your past that God tried to remove you from? What are some things that you keep looking back at, even though it’s burning down to the ground? When will you rise to the occasion for what’s truly on your heart? When will you step up and complete the task at hand?
We have a great responsibility and owe it to ourselves to do what’s in the best interest of ourselves, first. This is not a selfish concept, although we have programmed to believe so. Because it is grouped inside all of the negative ideas that have been placed inside of you from people projecting their own personal fears on you. And by them projecting that energy on you, someone calling you “Selfish,” in my opinion, is coming from someone who clearly does not put their own selves first, in many cases.
Someone is waiting for your gift to take control and give you the life that you truly desire. I pray you have the courage to step out on faith and not just “chase” your dreams but BECOME YOUR DREAM. Amen.
I hope something good happens to you today. ❤️
-Jermy
Education Talk…
BEAUTIFUL, BLACK PEOPLE! HAPPY JUNETEENTH! ✊🏾❤️🖤💚 it felt really good to be black yesterday, let me tell you. It felt like I had something that was my own. Something that me as a black man can be proud about. I’m thinking about why I have never celebrated Juneteenth before? I know that to some it may not matter, as long as we do it now and always, and I get it. I totally get it. All I’m saying that I don’t know who’s to blame for my tremendous lack of black or African-American history. I don’t know why I did not get all of the knowledge I felt that I should have received about my own culture growing up as a child. I know that we are moving forward but I want to find a solution as to how we can better educate our young people. Our young, BLACK people. Who makes the decisions on the history books that are issued to our schools? Who cuts the check and orders these books? Is there a book store that the government buys from? Is there an assortment of cooks to chose from per subject? Are there any books that are written about black history, only? Are those books available at this “book store” Im assuming exists? I just want Se answers and I really don’t know how or who to talk to but I’m going to find out. I want to know what can be done to change the. A restive in our black communities. I want my kids to know more about Marcus Garvey than Christopher Columbus. More about Fredrick Douglas and less about about Abraham Lincoln. I want my kids, OUR KIDS, to be able to have that luxury. To be able to learn from books that teach solely To whom the student is, BLACK. This is why I think the education system should go through some internal and systemic changes. And there should be more classes that are electives for middle schoolers. I think that reading, writing and English language should be mandatory and everything else should be electives. And then that is when you start having “African American studies” courses or music classes and performing arts available. Finance classes, law classes, military if that’s a goal for some. And the parents and children’s should be able to chose a “major” for their child, that way, it’s in the hands of the families on what career path they would want their children to be on, right from the very start. Real estate classes. I think there should be therapy available for all students. In middle school and in high school. I believe this will work because I believe that we are living in a time where most children in middle school are growing up with tablets and smartphones in their hands and they are much smarter than what we give them credit for.. A plan to homeschool for that’d the day, if you want.. I just have a lot of ideas that in think would help move the needle forward in education. I’m gonna figure it out but it’s definitely been on my heart a lot, lately. A music product course! And you can probably take an electronic, anonymous poll and ask specific questions about career paths and specific interests in order get a better read of what PARENTS WANT as well as what the kids want. I believe it should be more of a collaborative effort as opposed to just dropping your kids off like it’s a some sort of day care and not really be involved in PTA meetings and curriculum meetings and town halls. It’s important that our parents get more involved in the pathway for their children. This goes for me, also. This idea has definitely picked up steam as we celebrated Juneteenth, the national holiday day black slaves on June 19, 1865. Although it was passed two years prior, word didn’t get to the slaves in Texas until 1865, so that is the date and I celebrate it with confidence in blackness, boldness for my black brothers and sisters. To all of the black ancestors, who suffered and died and sacrificed their lives do that we can be free, will not be in vain. Ever. We stand on their shoulders and we fight harder, we march more, we speak louder and we take action on the journey. And celebrate the wins along the way. On the way to real freedom. A freedom where we can be the very best versions of ourselves, uninterrupted. No resistance. No oppression. Raising our families on our terms, living our lives, on our terms.
Well anyways.. Happy Juneteenth everybody body and I hope you have a great weekend. Stay black, God bless and Power to the people. ✊🏾🖤 -Jermy
