The Help

Some people always cry for help. Everytime I see them, they have a :-( and the sad song. When you ask them what is wrong, they say I need help. Well, I have seen God answer that prayer. I have seen God go into other systems where people are perfectly fine being there, and send them to the people who need help. Now something interesting happens when folks come to help you.  All of a sudden you start feeling like they are coming to take your place and do a better job. Well you asked for help and help came.  Now you are offended by the help. So often we get offended by someone coming to help us do what God said to do. We get territorial about what God told you to do when you can't do what God told you to do because you need help. So did you push everyone away who came to help you and your job did not get done properly?  God please help us not to get offended by the help. God help us when he decides that he's going to send the help somewhere else. Maybe he will send the help somewhere where they will appreciate it. Maybe he will send the help somewhere where they understand how to treat people. They understand how not to hurt your feelings because they do something better than you. Pharaoh said to Joseph except for the crown you are higher than I. Pharoe did not feel threatened by Joseph and Joseph did not feel like he was being abused by Pharoe. It was a beautiful relationship and all of Egypt and all of Israel was blessed by it.  Sometimes an angel of light really comes as an angel of light. Let us not be offended by the help.

That which pertains to a woman

We have not always had the luxury of being feminine.  In the history of great women, we often have been placed in the position of being the man. 72% of all of the black babies in the United States are born to single parent families. Those families are headed by black women. Those black women have had to get jobs to take care of those children in factories and on farms. They competed with their brethren for their brothers jobs. They were trying to do what they were trying to do. They were trying to raise their families. Somewhere in the whole scheme of things, we lost that which pertains to a woman. Our femininity became this independent woman that we had to become. We lost all vulnerability.  We lost our ability to fall and expect to be caught. We lost the expectation that someone would open the door to let us pass through. We lost the sweet scent of everything that pertains to a woman. My prayer today is that we would not lose that that pertains to a woman.  No matter how life treats you or what is handed to you, let us not forget how to wear a red lipstick and a pair of high heels shoes. Let us set aside a day to wander through the streets with a gardenia in our hair. Let us stop at the door and wait for it to be opened. Let us wait at the puddle for someone to come and help us across. It is not only my right it is my inheritance as a woman. Sojourner Truth said, "Ain't a woman?". I am a woman. I will live like a woman. I will love like a woman. No matter what happens in my life I will always embrace that which pertain to a woman.