Going back to Carbondale again. I wonder whats in store this semester. I just pray that I get all God wants me to get these next two years  You know...someone asked me the question if I wrote a book about my life what would its title be and what are the name of the chapters so far. It was a good question because it made me think. Its still making me think actually. So, I challenge you who actually read this thing to meditate on that question. It might surprise you.

Father's Day just passed and it made me think about all the men in my family. As I reminisce, it reminds me of how real generational curses are. Each one except for one(that I can think of), did or does suffer from alcoholism or drugs and were never quite there for their children. They were there I guess the best way they knew how to be. How can you be a man if you never had someone before you to show you exactly how that thang goes. And its definitely the truth when people say, a mother no matter how hard she tries can never fill those shoes.

I recently had a grandfather that passed away last week or so. I stood in hospital and thought about all the enemy has stolen from my family as it relates to the men (even as it relates to African American men). And I thought..wow. He died of cancer to the liver and lungs. When I stood over him in the hospital and watch as the machine slowly stopped beeping and I watched as he took his last breath...it was pretty difficult to take in. I knew that he left this earth way before his time. The Lord spoke to me to continue to speak life into my family and to declare generational curses to be broken. Circumstances in life compel you to pray more than you ever have..I think that was one of them. I began to see various men in my family lying on a hospital bed depending on a ventilator and the Lord really spoke to me and encouraged me to not give up and speak restoration in the live of the men in my family.

Thats why it encourages me to see young men of God, especially in the African American community desiring to know their identity and take back what the enemy stole from them. They are not afraid of what people may think of them when they desire to live holy. It encourages me because if Jesus can do it for them He can do it for the men in my family. So, I praise God this Father's Day that restoration is coming. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW1QN0S8koU