The Power Of Hope

The Power Of Hope

                                                           

Hebrews 11:1 (CEV)
Faith makes us sure of what we hope for and gives us proof of what we cannot see.

 Have you ever considered the meaning of the word hope? Did you realize that what or who you find your hope in may not be what or who someone else may find their hope in? Did you know that it is only natural for us to offer a person in need that seems to have given up hope, our hope? We don’t often think to ask the person what got them to the present? What did they believe in or hold on to? What is different in their current situation? What is not working for them that worked in the past? Perhaps if we allow them to work through their hope, they will reconnect or be willing to try our hope.

Don’t under estimate the power of hope. From holding a marriage together to bringing a person back from the hands of death, hope gives us something or someone to hold on to. Hope as an equation is Help over Problem Eventually. This mental and or spiritual equation allows us to see help over the problem no matter how big or deep the problem, eventually. It is the H/E part, Help Eventually that gives us the motivation we need to hold on. For the Christian, the H/E or He of our hope is Jesus the Christ. For non-Christians the H/E may be a person, a god, an object, or something else, the important thing is that there is a H/E. Just because your hope is built on Jesus Christ and His righteousness, don’t under estimate someone’s hope that is different than yours for them. Go ahead, in the words of Jessie Jackson, “Keep Hope Alive” it may save a life. ~Moffett~

You Can’t Work Your Way Into Heaven

You Can’t Work Your Way Into Heaven

According to Jesus teaching found in Luke 13:25-27, many people will attempt to work their way into heaven. The issue is that Jesus has already completed the work, we have to complete the worship. There is a major difference between work and worship; we work for a reward, where worship is the reward, and worship requires spiritual work that is manifested in the flesh. Worship that transcends and transitions the earth realm to the spiritual realm.  

~Moffett~

22July 2018

Saratoga

 Saratoga                                         

Hibernation denied, courage applied

Destination confirmed, travel from home

Cancelation in dreams, anxiety bells ring

Expectations delayed, emotions parade

Declarations proclaimed, practice for the ring of fame

Participation panic, eradicate frantic

Equalization established, experience embellished

Collaboration of bond, observe the prey respond

Persuasion inquisition, silent recognition

Hesitation in exit, program indebted

Actualization ignited, PTSD indicted

~Moffett~

12 July 2018

Woman, Not Today!

Woman, Not Today!

To the widow just trying to make it; I get it life dealt you a hand you have to play out. To the wife whose husband serves our country in one way or another, leaving you to tend to the children; I get it. To the mother whose man is incarcerated as a result of a corrupt justice system; I get it. To the woman that was raped and left with a living reminder of a day she wishes she could forget; I get it. Each of you has no choice but to make up for the void of an absent father. You feel entitled to celebrate both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. I would hope that you find some way to celebrate the father of your child even if it is just for the child’s sake.  

To the mothers that just made a bad choice however it happened, you ended up with what you now call, “a sperm donor”; to you, I don’t understand. One night stand, another woman’s man, trying to make him your husband anyway you can, get a needle in your hand, put food in the pan, putting dollars on your stand. You didn’t yell, “dead-beat dad “ or “sperm donor” on the night/day of conception, but today you want to make a public exception, present you child with a false perception, to promote your exhilaration, paternal  emasculation, perpetuation over generations, offspring brain incarceration, feminist ideology fertilization, gender discrimination, forced assimilation, family deprivation. You have 364 days for the signification of your hallucinations, but today is for “Fathers” celebration!   

~Moffett~

June 17, 2018  

Sleepwalking

Trapped in a nightmare that appears to be real

Awaken from the delusion of The New Deal

Conscious rhetoric falls off my lips

Unaware that I’m the Zombie in the civil apocalypse

Riding on that bus to reform the NRA

Guns and control I’m prompted to say

Lynching without rope, branch, or tree

Uniformed killers riding free

Hebrew ancestors, the identity I claim

Messianic, Orthodoxism, tribal distain

Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Greek philosophy

Yet, Tuthmosis III, Manetho, Iknaton mean nothing to me   

Going to the polls to vote for education

Economic robbery, governmental retardation

Third grade decision, High School attritions  

Judges, court rooms, judicial ammunition

Political puppet, no need for strings

Hypnotic melodies the church choir sings

European theology my preacher talking

All in this nightmare, I’m still sleepwalking

~Moffett~

May 12, 2018

Trumpisim

When Republican Evangelicals become so disillusioned with the fact that they have become the minority in America, they abandon morality for a conjured eschatology. It is called “Trumpisim”

~Moffett~

Truth in a Year of Jubilee

“If a nation keeps telling itself lies, it will eventually elect a liar-in-chief.” (Rev. Dr. R. Warnock) Said from a theological perspective, truth confronts a lie until the light of the truth cancels out the darkness of the lie, but when viewed from the vantage point of a New World Order, a lie is transliterated to become “alternate truth” alternate truth evolves into perceived truth and perceived truth unchallenged delivers an untimely eulogy of truth to the deceived. ~Moffett~           

7 May 2018

Still Bill/Steel Bill

Like Niagara Falls on a windy day, my emotions are falling

Like a dropping roller castor, his legacy my memory recalling

Alexander Scott, Fat Albert, Dr. Huxtable, to Little Bill,

A legacy of hope, legend profound, is My! reality still

Predator, manipulator, fornicator, cognitive dissonance plaguing me

Role model, author, actor, activist, athlete, veteran is the man I see

From Hollywood Star to the cold steel bar, my comprehension haywire

In the mirror of reflection, the neighborhood selection or predatory vampire  

Race assassination, dehumanization, denounce-my-nation, hope elimination    

Rationalize, decimalize, tears in my eyes, displaced admiration

Covert comedians spitting poison darts, heart annihilated

Systematic tactic, implosion reacted, economic satisfaction, diaspora eradicated

                                                                      ~Moffett~ 29 April 2018

NIGGER I Am

Non-violent Intellectual Granting Graceful Executed Resistance

Nubian Icon God Gave Exhorting Rhetoric

Noble Identity Genesis Genetics Engendered Repopulation

Navigator Inventing Global Gestation Ethnic Resolve   

Niger, Ivory-Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Egypt, Rwanda

No one asked me if I wanted to come

Instead, you kidnapped me and murdered some

Graves for the weak the sea became

God granted life to those that remained

Enslave my body, but not my soul

Reclaiming the identity that slavery stole  

~Moffett~

3Jan 2018

Election

Why should my eyes wail with rivers of tears

While people like me fill the air with cheers

Celebrating a President that looks like me

A feeling that my people are finally free

Could it be that Dr. King’s Dream was really true

Equality and justice for Black people too

Through Non-violence and Black Power, the White House we gain

Yet, floods of hatred, bigotry, and prejudice still rain

Iron chains to prison cells, it’s all the same

Constructional freedom, yet enslaved the brain

Chattel, Contraband, Collateral, contained

Brainwashed identity, Conscience proclaimed

A country divided, birth certificate in hand

Glimmers of Dr. King’s Promised Land

“Your people have made it” un-melanin distain

Is it just slavery by another name                                          ~Moffett~ 3 Jan 2018 

Margret’s Best

Did not the Father sacrifice His Son

That the life of many be saved by One

Can not a mother in love proclaim

The freedom of her children all the same

Tenacity, perseverance, a destiny to keep

Chased like an animal, backs were beat

The road to freedom, was it self-defeat

Could Heaven and peace be the prize to keep

A cross, a knife, cold water you say

Is to great a price for freedom to pay

One for His sheep, wondered astray

The other’s, a mother’s bird's, Emancipation Day

Moffett /1Jan 2018