Live Mas!

Those who have kids understand what I am about to say.  It has to be an indescribable feeling to see your child raised from birth to teenager or early adulthood, to go through the sometimes pain of rearing them through school, the crushes, the arguments, the Christmas’ and birthday’s and all that comes between – because that would run this list off of the page.  There is just a lot of both trial and error because we as the adults understand what our kids are wanting, but because we know what is best for them in the long run, we try and assist them the best way that we know how to correct their course of action before that action leads to destruction AND DEATH.  To see your child snatched away from you prematurely has to be devastating.  I pray that that is one pain that I don t have to endure in order to learn something from.  I know that we can learn something out of every experience of life, but that one can miss me.  All that to say this… I wonder how God must feel when one of us – his children don t get all there is out of this life before leaving this earth.  All the trials, tests, ministering words from Pastors, church attendance, intercessory prayer, the laying of hands and his abiding Spirit within us, in hopes that we will fulfill our destiny; and then to fall short, has to be disappointing to him when all we had to do was believe and take him at his word, that he would be keep us and be with us.  Many of us are upset and justly so for the Mike Brown, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, and Eric Garner; and like tragedies taking pace daily.  But the greatest tragedy of all are for any of us to come all this way in life and not see the promises of God come to pass in our own lives.  Death is tragic but a life wasted is even worse.