Son-shine on Your Shoulders

Good Son-Day!!! Fostering Fun with Fam & Friends To honor BHM, Jo decided to bring the Afro black Happy Birthday BJ!!!! A shout out to my love ones who are miracles in remission.   BHM Factoid A 12-year-old Martin jumped from a second story window at his family home, allegedly attempting suicide.  Throughout his life he suffered from depression.  Some of it stemming from the harsh life in the south.   EMBRACE AND CELEBRATE: OUR HERITAGE TO LOVE AND PREVAIL IN A CLIMATE OF HATE. I have a great appreciation of the history of people with a enslaved ancestry.  The continual pursuit of equity, humanity, and democracy has exacted a excruciatingly painful price from an extraordinary tribe.  The approach to achieving equal footing has been multiple marches on DC in various forms that bolstered democracy rather than put in peril with lunacy, lies, and hostility. The noble tribe has every right to harbor animosity for what has occurred over 40...

Good Son-Day!! Happy Birthday First, a happy December birthday shout out to my dear siblings, Carmen 3rd, Alex 7th, and Roma 9th! Will Smith Syndrome - America’s Unwillingness to Exercise Grace In this link, https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/opinions/will-smith-slap-oscars-scandal-filipovic/index.html , you will see a link to a CNN posting that shows Will Smith in an interview.  He is speaking about the “Slap”.  He explains his behavior in a manner that is accountable and apologetic.  No excuses. Very contrite. Very humble. Americans already are saying, he is just trying to get back in our good graces; so, we will go see his movies again.  In fact, he has a movie that premiered 12/2/22 on Apple TV, “Emancipation”.  We are questioning the motives behind the apology. Image consultants are telling him to stop apologizing because it will lose its impact.  They point to multiple celebrities who made public mistakes simply by doing nothing.  Case in po...

  Happy Labor Day And may the Son-shine on you this day  as He does everyday  Kids, Cuz's & 250K Run the Race with Endurance Tony Gaskins is a motivational speaker who stated the following, “Love did not hurt you.   Someone who does not know how to love you hurt you. Don’t confuse the two”.   There are so many applications of this statement. I just want to follow behind and state this applies to those who the clerical collar.   Those who are entrusted to ministry positions must take special care not to injure their flock.   Every day, I see in the paper where a minister has made mistakes that leave a mark on the congregation.     A recently released movie, “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul” starring Regina Hall and Sterling K Brown is a satire about a dysfunctional pastor and first lady.   It’s another of many Hollywood shots at the church.   It saddens me that the church has provided enough material for these kinds of...