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WORD WEEK 06-18-06

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GENESIS 21:16 KJV

And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.

GENESIS 23:2 KJV

And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

GENESIS 50:1 KJV

And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

GENESIS 50:17 KJV

So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

PSALM 103:1 KJV

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

MATTHEW 2:18 KJV

In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

MATTHEW 3:3 KJV

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

JOHN 11:35 KJV

Jesus wept.

CRY

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

Disruptions, disappointments, betrayals, exclusions, deferred advancements, inappropriate dislodge of power, sickness, class bias, racial bias, gender bias, depression, destruction, disintegration of the dignity and the worth of human lives, prisons who capitalize on the births of African American males not yet born by projecting their life-paths by the age of three, wars that claim the lives of many who serve forever transforming the lives of their family members, famine, disease, brokenness, hopelessness, and poverty are some of the many reasons that might cause one to cry!

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

Pandemic unemployment, the United States work force crisis, disintegration in social and work ethics, drug-addicted babies who die as a consequence of having in utero exposure to drugs, children in Africa and India who die by the dozens as a consequences of malnutrition, revenue spent on the development of penal systems, and revenue retracted from budgets for recreation; music; humanities; curriculums all of which are presently defunct in the public school system as they are not deemed a significant enough investment are even more reasons that might cause one to cry!

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

Political mudslinging, the brutal murder of five youths over this past weekend in New Orleans who were shot to death, the threat of North Korea to "wipeout" United States forces in the event of war during a national meeting to mark Kim Jong-ll's forty-years work at the ruling party, the 40 Philippine families who had to flee their homes due to the onslaught of a volcano, the news that the United States officials received intelligence that al Qaeda operatives had been 45 days from releasing a deadly gas into New York City subways when the plan was called off by Osama bin Laden's second-in-command in 2003, and the finding/excavation of the Largato which sank 61 years ago with 86 sailors aboard are still even more reasons to cry!

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

Suffering is present throughout the world and occurring at a pandemic level daily! Suffering which is so great that the BELOVED OF GOD have become immune to and/or anesthetized by its profundity! Moreover, the passion of living abundantly and joyously appears to have been abducted by the sobering reality that hearts of too many of GOD'S people are becoming apathetic! Consequently, the physical and spiritual tear ducts of far too many Christians have begun to dry out because the BELOVED OF GOD have forgotten the power of tears, the power of crying, the power of weeping!!! Consequently, far too many of the LORD'S people have given up, given out, and have given in because they believe that their tears do not touch the heart of a loving and gracious GOD! Crying it seems to many of GOD'S people, appears to require too much work and does not appear to avert one's present suffering! Consequently, the big lake of tears that was kept fresh by the tears humanity through the ages, appears to be drying out and all that appears to remain is salty residue! Help us GOD!

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

The sickness of those whom we love, the death of those with whom be bear witness, the breaking of the family circle, emotional disconnectedness, malignant narcissism, basic courtesy buried by the desert sands of time, road rage, and the word "thank you" replaced by a spirit of entitlement and a lack of basic gratitude are still even more reasons why we should cry; i.e., why we should weep!

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

As we reflect upon the Biblical Scripture above, one of the common themes to which we bear witness in all eight verses is that of the blessing of tears; i.e., the blessing of crying: 1] The Egyptian Woman Servant, Hagar, cries beneath a tree when she feared the death of her son and Abraham's son Ishamel subsequent to being banished by Sarah. 2] Abraham mourns the death of Sarah. 3] Joseph, in reverence to his father, weeps and kisses his father's face. 4] Joseph's brothers who sought his demise, now wept in their having received his forgiveness. 5] David, reminds us in the book of Psalms, that he cried out of the depths of his soul unto the LORD! 6] King Herod upon hearing about the witness of the Three Wise Men slays all of the children in Bethlehem and the coast thereof and weeping was heard in Rama as Rachel was weeping for her children and could not be comforted! 7] Scripture foretold the arrival of he who ate wild honey and locust and he who cometh from the wilderness prophesying to the world the entrance of the LOGOS made FLESH! 8] Lastly, one of the shortest sentences and yet one of the most profound scriptures in the Biblical narrative, "JESUS WEPT!"

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

The act of crying is a gift given by the gracious presence of The Holy Spirit that enables us as human beings to absorb the shocks of deepening spirituality! Crying tempers us on numerous levels as our tears access a place in our spirits and in communion with the LORD that words evade! The act of crying is cathartic for the wounded soul and the parched spirit. We are witness bearers via the Prophets in the Old Testament who remind us that our strength, fortitude, vision, hope, song, and petitions are often conveyed to the LORD not only by words, but via our moans and groans and tears which the HOLY SPIRIT maketh intercession! The Crying of the BELOVED OF GOD provokes the gentle hand of GOD to carry the Beloved Wounded over mountains, through valleys, and across oceans.

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

Each and everyday that we encounter current events nationally and internationally, we become instantly unified with others when we are witness bearers of their rivers of tears. Crying is a universal language that unfolds in the lives of the rich and poor; the white, black, yellow, and red; the famous and the unknown; the controllers of power and those oppressed by such power; the strong and the weak; the embraced and those for whom an embrace is feared; the restored and the broken; the accepted and heralded; the rejected and the outcast.

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

The tears of the righteous man/woman moves the gracious hand of GOD to action! Crying may be a companion of Prayer, Meditation, Reflection, Spiritual Reading, Praise, Contemplation, and Mission, all of which will bring about a glorious transformation in the life of the man/woman of GOD! Consequently, tears are not an obstruction but function like that of a river that transports the wounded from one destination or point of contact to another destination or point of contact. What a profound change could be made in the world if all of humanity cried a large lake of tears!

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

In seasons of distress, CRY! In seasons of brokenness, CRY, In seasons of numbness, CRY! In seasons of confusion, CRY! In seasons of grief, CRY! In seasons of despair, CRY! In seasons of sickness, CRY, In seasons of disappointments, CRY! In seasons of war, CRY! In seasons of peace, CRY! In seasons of celebration, CRY! In seasons of stagnation, CRY! In seasons of brokenness, CRY! In seasons of betrayals, CRY! In season of loneliness, CRY! In seasons of transition, CRY! In seasons of uncertainty, CRY! In seasons of woundedness, CRY! In seasons of abandonment, CRY! CRY! CRY! CRY!

Crying is not only evidenced by our tears, but it is often articulated in our passion and our pain and their capacity to he used in the healing of another's brokenness! Tears, like pain, have no gender. Perhaps, they are what makes us human! As the events unfold in all of the verses above, we are reminded that we should take great comfort in the grace and loving presence in power of YAHWEH!

Subsequently, as each event/narrative unfolds, we become witness bearers to the transformative power of tears as we are reminded the life happens and that twenty-four hours can radically change the remainder and course of one's life as well as human history! As we reflect upon each of the aforementioned verses, we become witness bearers to the pathos, prayers, disappointments, fears, concerns, and betrayals, that are the catalyst for tears! The tears of the righteous have accompanied days that have acquiesced into nights, nights that have acquiesced into days.

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

When we encounter Jesus in our suffering and when everything familiar to us appears to be communicated via our tears, Jesus touches us in a way that causes our suffering and brokenness to become our comfort and strength. Throughout the sacred text; i.e., from the book Genesis to the book of Revelation, we as the Beloved Community of GOD are petitioned to embrace the spiritual necessity that the Divine Journey will summons the necessity of the tears and the act of crying. When we abandon the parameters of human reason alone and "tap" the consciousness of GOD, our lives become transformed in our realization that our lives are really not our own, but gifts birthed by the unfathomable love of GOD! The Holy Spirit causes something to happen to us, with us, and in us as we know that victory and triumph can only come from divine intervention which on many occasions has been activated by crying; weeping; tears as witnessed above!

When was the last time that you remember having cried?

Alvin Ailey as a rising choreographer many years ago choreographed a dance piece entitled "CRY." At that time Mr. Aliey was unable to afford a gift for his mother and in his desire to honor her and all mothers of the world, he choreographed "CRY!" Mr. Ailey had undoubted encountered the pathos of our humanity and rendered movement, passion, and expression to the transformative power of tears!

As each of us progresses on our journey to the Celestial City of GOD, may the loving and gracious hand of GOD comfort you in response to your tears, may the words that only your tears can render expression grant you peace and release, may you forever be reminded that a tear does not fall from your eyes that does not escape so without the attention of GOD!

ISAIAH 55: 11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

K. Mason(c) 2005

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WAIT ON THE LORD

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WORD WEEK 06-11-06

WAIT ON THE LORD

ISAIAH 40:28-31

KJV28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

WAIT ON THE LORD

Fear, anxiety, brokenness, helplessness, disempowerment, hopelessness, suffering, and oppression are a few of the daily dynamics that hundreds and hundreds of the BELOVED of GOD experience far too frequently. Pandemic suffering is so great that the motivation to live and the intrinsic desire to wait on GOD appear too great of a charge to fathom much less implement. Consequently, far too many of the LORD'S people have given up, given out, and have given in because waiting on the LORD appears to require too much work and does not appear to abate one's present suffering!

This "weight to wait" is one dynamic that causes the dedicated, the humble, the committed, and the courageous to question not only the issue of whether or not GOD hears, but question at a more profound level if GOD really cares about the concerns that matters to each of us! Help us GOD! We reside in a world that provides each of us with implicit and explicit messages that speed as well as instant gratification equals proficiency. While the aforementioned is far too often an occurrence, there are other instances when real progress and transformation are and can only be authenticated by the SLOW WORK OF GOD!

Success is heralded as money equals movement equals prestige. While many can access and generate revenue and while the media attempts to dictate to whom should be rendered the spotlight, the aforementioned indicators are not necessarily markers of success nor do they indicate consultation with the LORD. However, “the weight of the wait” becomes greater as we see the secular world making strides and gains and the faith community appearing as though it is stuck in freeze-frame!

This dynamic of waiting is one that is tempered by the gracious presence of The Holy Spirit. When we wait in anticipation for the movement and the manifestation of the blessings of the LORD in the pulling down of strongholds, the release of shackles, the manifestation of healing in the presence of sickness, the activation of congregational growth, and the answering of petitions, the "weight of the wait" will become lighter if we trust GOD. The Prophet, Isaiah, reminds us that they who wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength, fortitude, vision, hope, song, and their spirit as it is the breath of GOD that carries the Beloved of GOD over mountains, through valleys, and around oceans like the winds that supports the wings of eagles causing them to soar!

While we wait on the LORD, this act of trust, faith, and grace is one of a myriad of ways in which we are grown by the LORD and purified by the SPIRIT. Blessings authenticated by GOD do not necessarily happen over night though they could should GOD desire.

Throughout history we are witness bearers of those who saw the vision and trusted GOD in the midst of their disenchantment and suffering. If the truth were investigated, each of us would arrive at the conclusion that it is the presence of the LORD that sustains us in the period of the "wait without weights!"

Far too often the Beloved of GOD get the waiting process confused with the secular world's perspective of waiting which is often a softer way to abandon the well being of others. Consequently, believers embrace the weights of what they perceive as inactivity and abandonment and become weighted-down! Help us GOD! In essence, waiting on the LORD should not weigh us down but lighten the burdens because we know that GOD is in control! Each and everyday that we encounter the news, we get stanch glimpses of the myriad of ways that this whole dynamic of waiting gets played-out in the lives of the rich and poor; the white, black, yellow, and red; the famous and the unknown; the controllers of power and those oppressed by such power; the strong and the weak; the embraced and those for whom an embrace is feared; the restored and the broken; the accepted and heralded; the rejected and the outcast.

However, "the weight of the wait" should motivate the Beloved of GOD to action! Actions such as Prayer, Active Listening, Meditation, Spiritual Reading, Praise, Reflection, Contemplation, Self-Reflection, and Mission, all of which will bring about a glorious transformation in the Christian man/woman! Consequently, the wait is not a weight but a holy invitation for each of us to engage in an intimate relationship with a GOD who loves us with a love that is deeper then any ocean, wide as any valley, and high as any mountain top! Now, that is LOVE!

In times of distress, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of brokenness, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of confusion, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of grief, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of despair, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of sickness, WAIT ON THE LORD, In times of disappointments, WAIT ON THE LORD, In times of what appears as stagnation, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of family disintegration, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of betrayals, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of transition, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of uncertainty, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of woundedness, WAIT ON THE LORD! In times of abandonment, WAIT ON THE LORD! Yes, Beloved of GOD WAIT ON THE LORD who fainteth not, nor is GOD weary for when we call upon the LORD GOD, GOD always answers!

As the events unfold in the text of Isaiah, Chapter 40, we are reminded that we should be of good cheer as we wait upon the undefeatable presence and power of YAHWEH! Subsequently, as the events unfold, we become witness bearers as we are reminded of the an unnamed woman who yearns for healing and quests for deliverance from twelve long years of suffering whom we encountered in the prior week's reflection. As she recognizes that JESUS is present, it is likely that she recollects via flashbacks, her twelve years of suffering, praying, disappointments, fears, letdowns, betrayals, and watching others receive their blessings, all of which became days that have acquiesced into nights, nights that have acquiesced into days. She had to WAIT! However, when her deliverance was at hand, there was not a force in humanity nor nature that dared stand between her and GOD! In essence, we WAIT ON THE LORD, we are in actuality, waiting for the LORD to set things and motion for supernatural movement! When we encounter Jesus in our suffering and when everything familiar to us appears at risk because we are required to wait, Jesus touches us in a way that causes our suffering and brokenness to become the launch pad that catapults us to higher and greater dimensions in the LORD! In other words, your weakness becomes your strength, your brokenness becomes your fortress, and your faith becomes the reality!

Throughout the sacred text; i.e., from the book Genesis to the book of Revelation, we as the Beloved Community of GOD are petitioned to embrace the spiritual necessity that the Divine Journey will call into question, the necessity of the wait, which could cause some weight at times! Oftentimes, the require of sacrifice and the delay of gratification accompanies the life of him/her who thirsts, follows, and is compelled by the intimately transformative presence of GOD! Far too frequently, many of the Beloved of GOD are dismayed, while others are disconcerted, still even others abducted by fear when events and plans do not occur according to plan. Moreover, such distress is ignited like wildfire by the harsh reality when fear, disappointment, loss, and suffering occur when the Beloved of GOD is petitioned by the Spirit to wait. Waiting while we struggle with "It might happen, It could happen, It is likely to happen, and/or What if it did happen!" While our faith in GOD is couched in NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, so is the capacity and the power of the wait!

As we look at current events, both nationally and internationally, injury, destruction, suffering, and the pleasure principle are all at pandemic levels. Sensitivity, patience, morality, the necessity of being our brothers' and sisters' keepers, the honoring of those in their senior years, the feeding of the hungry, team work, the sheltering of the homeless, the liberation of the oppressed, and the readiness to die to CHRIST are all being sacrificed, because the dynamic of wait relies on GOD'S vision verses that of humanity.

We deepen our faith walk and our relationship with CHRIST when our journey is accompanied by such a dynamic because waiting is a very active process! The spiritual life in CHRIST causes each of us to take risks, walk out on cliffs, venture down unknown paths, abandon that which is familiar and predictable, stand against the crowd, and remain loving and forgiving in the face of betrayals and trap layers while we WAIT!! When we abandon the parameters of human reason alone and "tap" the consciousness of GOD, our lives become transformed in our realization that our lives are really not our own, but gifts birthed by the unfathomable love of GOD! The Holy Spirit causes something to happen to us, with us, and in us as we know that victory and triumph can only come from divine intervention via the LORD! In essence, Beloved of GOD, rejoice in the LORD and be of good courage, wait I say on the LORD! For your waiting is not the indicator that life is taking you under, but is in actuality a door for the LORD GOD to endow your life with greater possibilities and blessings then eyes have seen and ears have heard! YOU are an aspect of GOD'S DREAM being fulfilled and GOD'S LOVE regenerating itself! They that wait upon the LORD shall RENEW their Strength!

ISAIAH 55: 11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

K. Mason
(c) 2005

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I WILL SURVIVE!

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WORD WEEK 06-04-06

I WILL SURVIVE!

Matthew 9: 21-22

KJV20Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed." 22Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment.

I WILL SURVIVE

As the season of Spring provides us with beauty for the eyes and fragrance in the air, we are reminded that all living things are renewed. Trees and shrubbery that were once bared by the blanket of Winter are now fully clad in their vestment of green hue. Flowers, both beautiful and fragrant, have struggled to make their entrance into the world after a season of slumber in the dark of soil and cold. Hope appears just when many of us have silently uttered to ourselves, "what is the use in continuing" or wondered will our presence in the world really matter or ever make a difference?

Since the beginning of time to the present day, human beings have made incredible advancements in Science, Medicine, Technology, and, Psychology. However, the one existential issue that still seems to plague each of us is that of something so basic, yet visceral, namely survival. Each and everyday that we encounter the news, we get stanch glimpses of the myriad of ways that this whole dynamic of survival gets played-out in the lives of the rich and poor; the white, black, yellow, and red; the famous and the unknown; the controllers of power and those oppressed by such power; the strong and the weak; the embraced and those for whom an embrace is feared; the restored and the broken; the accepted and heralded; the rejected and the outcast.

Beneath the basic pulsating drive of the survival of all living things is the dynamic of immortality verses extinction. Life is a gift we are told to open with gratitude, gentleness, and mindfulness. Commensurately, life may present many of us with a range of circumstances that appear insurmountable. Circumstances that have the propensity to impact not only our lives, but the lives of others both directly and indirectly profoundly. We are impacted on a daily bases by the increase in the cost of living and the deterioration in the quality of life. While some persons struggle to meet the obligation of their utility expenses, still others struggle to figure out from whence will come their next meal. While some persons struggle to pay a monthly automobile expense, still others struggle with the issue of displacement which might be a consequence of unemployment and/or foreclosure on their homes. While some persons have little to no regard for lives that do not impact their microcosmic world, still others' lives hang in suspense because no one desires to stand up and advocate for their rights. While the United States is a land rich in resources and prosperity, still far too many United States citizens are unable to become empowered by their basic constitutional rights, but are left destitute and outcast!

Such an avalanche of life changing events can cause even the most grounded human being/Christian to question his/her survival if the "bottom falls out." While many persons project high confidence and might render the impression to others, that anxiety is not in their story, when he/she sits alone, the reality that 24 hours can radically change the rest of one's life forever looms ever presently, if the truth were revealed.

As the events unfold in the text of Matthew, Chapter 9, we are rendered a stanch glimpse of the collision of the triumph of hope over the experience! Though this pericope is brief in narration, it is pregnant with possibility and endowed with a sense of struggle and the will to live abundantly in the power and the presence of the LORD as evidenced by its content! Subsequently, as the events unfold, we become witness bearers to an unnamed woman who yearns for healing and quests for deliverance from twelve long years of suffering. As she recognizes that JESUS is present, it is likely that she recollects via flashbacks, her twelve years of suffering, praying, disappointments, fears, letdowns, betrayals, and watching others receive their blessings, all of which became days that have acquiesced into nights, nights that have acquiesced into days. For the unnamed woman, she was plagued with an issue of blood for twelve long years, yet for many of us we too are plagued with issues that angst us, some of which we harbor shame, shame that is never uttered, by held and cogitated in the deep recess of our souls. Help us GOD!

What this unnamed woman offers each of us is a reality check that when we have come to a place in our journey when we feel or believe that GOD has forgotten about us and when the road on that journey appears to be spiraling into more ambiguity and hopelessness, it is in this place that GOD comes to us! GOD is always present to us even at those times when it becomes difficult to sense his presence. In the 1939 movie based on L. Frank Baum's The Wizard Of OZ, we are reminded that GOD'S presence is always present to us when we reflect upon the scene when Dorothy and her cohorts are on their way to Emerald City. While success was on their horizon, the Wicked Witch of the West, decided place a field of poppy seed flowers before them to induce sleep. Subsequently, as the events unfold, we become witness bearers to a translucent and iridescent image of Glinda the Good Witch who over shadows the poppy seed field causing it to snow and awakening Dorothy and her sleeping cohorts! Moreover, the Scarecrow bellowed out the fears that many of us have uttered in one word that gets at a state of our threaten survival, namely, "HELP!"

What both the Wizard Of Oz and the Woman with an Issue of Blood illuminates for each of us is there are many instances when our survival becomes so threaten either we are seduced to sleep from the depression of having our survival repeatedly threatened or we have are impacted by blood-related issues that impact our quality of life like that of the Woman with an Issue of Blood. Further reflection on the Biblical narrative illustrates that this woman was dealing with an issue of life and death as blood is the life-force of the body. However, the great news is that we are one in the bond of love for he whose blood is the key to abundant life and he whose blood was shed for the remission of sin!

While this narrative does suggest that this unnamed woman was dealing with a blood-related issue, it also implies that the quality of her life was significantly impacted by such. In essence, she was uncertain if she would survive, but when she saw JESUS, the words "I can't take it any longer" were transformed into the words, "I Will SURVIVE!" These words were not so much articulated via her mouth as they were via her attitude, action, and ability to stretch herself even further in her suffering and ambiguity once she encountered Jesus! When we encounter Jesus in our suffering and when everything familiar to us is at risk of not surviving, Jesus touches us in a way that causes our suffering and brokenness to become the launch pad that catapults us to higher and greater dimensions in the LORD! In other words, your weakness becomes your strength, your brokenness becomes your fortress, and your faith because the certainty!

For this unnamed woman her survival was an issue as it related to twelve years of suffering. This narrative presents each of us as witness bearers with a similar inquiry, namely, "What thoughts, What beliefs about ourselves, What undisclosed hopes, prayer, and longing do we harbor that impact the quality of our survival because we await deliverance form the LORD? Throughout the sacred text; i.e., from the book Genesis to the book of Revelation, we as the Beloved Community of GOD are petitioned to embrace the spiritual necessity that the Divine Journey will call into question, one's survival. Oftentimes, the threat of survival accompanies the life of him/her who thirsts, follows, and is compelled by the intimately transformative presence of GOD. However, the threat of survival summons anxiety and fear in the believer as we have trepidation that the requirements will be great and the cost quite high! While we embrace the reality that an aspect of the spiritual experience is about euphoric rejoicing, we attempt and desire to stay clear and avoid the aspect of the spiritual life that requires our embrace of survival threat! The consolation of the journey accompanied by the question of survival is that YOU are NEVER ALONE BELOVED of GOD! ABSOLUTELY NEVER! NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS...GOD! NO MATTER WHAT DOES NOT HAPPEN...GOD!

Far too frequently, many of the Beloved of GOD are dismayed, while others are disconcerted, still even others abducted by fear when events and plans do not occur according to plan. Moreover, such distress is ignited like wildfire by the harsh reality when fear, disappointment, loss, and suffering occur when the Beloved of GOD encounters threats. Threats are couched it "It might happen, It could happen, It is likely to happen, and/or What if it did happen," while our faith in GOD is couched in NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS! The Woman with the issue of blood illuminates for each of us that he/she who has the will to survive must be willing to embrace the reality of risk commensurately. Despite her being outlasted, shamed, discouraged, misunderstood, prevented from equal access to opportunity, and despised, her suffering becomes the strength that ensures her capacity to survive once she has made conscious contact with JESUS!

Throughout the Holy Text, we are witness bearers to the reality that quite often a companion of transformation and spiritual enlightenment is the presence of threat. What an ironic statement we ponder silently, even right now in reading this reflection many of use are wondering how will those things which appear to keep us binded ever release their hold on our ability to surge forth? When we as witness bearers observe the interaction of Adam and Eve and their interface with the Tree of Knowledge, we witness the interplay of the threat of survival. When we as witness bearers observe The Call of Abraham, the promise to Sarah, and the Promise to Hagar from JEHOVAH, we witness the interplay of the threat of survival! When we as witness bearers observe the plight of Joseph in having been left in a well, sold, and betrayed, we witness the interplay of the threat of survival. There are numerous occurrences of this reality. The poignant and compelling question remains: Why is it for so many Christians does this occurrence become disconcerting?

As we look at current events, both nationally and internationally, injury, destruction, suffering, and the pleasure principle are all at pandemic levels. Sensitivity, patience, morality, the necessity of being our brothers' and sisters' keepers, the honoring of those in their senior years, the feeding of the hungry, team work, the sheltering of the homeless, the liberation of the oppressed, and the readiness to die to CHRIST are all being sacrificed, because the dynamic of survival threat accompanies the aforementioned. We deepen our faith walk and our relationship with CHRIST when our journey is accompanied by such threats. The spiritual life in CHRIST causes each of us to take risks, walk out on cliffs, venture down unknown paths, abandon that which is familiar and predictable, stand against the crowd, and remain loving and forgiving in the face of betrayals and trap layers! This is the PASSION! This is THE CALLING! When we abandon the parameters of human reason alone and "tap" the consciousness of GOD, our lives become transformed in our realization that our lives are really not our own, but gifts birthed by the unfathomable love of GOD! The Holy Spirit causes something to happen to us, with us, and in us as we know that victory and triumph can only come from divine intervention via the LORD! The threat of survival provokes the Beloved of GOD to go to the mountain top, see the danger, and the carnal end, while commensurately looking into the windowpane of eternity. Consequently, the Beloved is transformed like the face of Moses and like the garments of CHRIST!

In essence, Beloved of GOD, rejoice because the threat of your survival is not the indicator that life is taking you under, but is in actuality a door for the LORD GOD to endow your life with greater possibilities and blessings then eyes have seen and ears have heard! YOU are an aspect of GOD'S DREAM being fulfilled and GOD'S LOVE regenerating itself! What the Woman with the Issue of Blood offers us is this reality, when your survival is at hand, "PRESS!" Yes, "PRESS FORWARD" in the authority of the LORD that deeper intimacy with the LORD will enable you to not only live, but will enable you to claim one of the many banners of what it means to be Christian, namely, "I WILL SURVIVE" AND COME FORTH AS PURE GOLD!

ISAIAH 55: 11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

K. Mason
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DIVINE DANGER!!!

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WORD WEEK 04-23-06

DIVINE DANGER!

Matthew 27: 2 8-36 KJV

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.They came to a place called "Golgotha," that is to say, "The place of a skull."They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,and they sat and watched him there.They set up over his head the accusation against him written, "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

DIVINE DANGER

During this time of the year while flowers and trees are stretching to the heavens in celebration of renewal from GOD, Christians the world throughout pause to deeply reflect about the Passion Narrative of Jesus Christ. While there is no event as momentous as Christ's agony and walk to Golgotha, a critical aspect of what it means to experience presence, pathos, and passion is overlooked if one does not consider that the Passion Narrative commenced with the birth of the Christ Child.

As we look at an amplification of the birth narrative, we are witness bearers to the reality that prior to the exit of Christ from both the womb of his mother and the womb of eternity, fear, debauchery, plans to abort, and interrupt prophetic fulfillment were on the minds of the masses, criminals, and even many in the Sanhedrian. Significantly, what is poignant about such a reflection is the reality that the presence of danger was as intimately interwoven with the life of Christ and his family as every other life event. This presence was just not simply unpurposeful nor incidental danger, but action manifested in love, sacrifice, and passion, namely, "DIVINE DANGER!"

Throughout the sacred text; i.e., from the book Genesis to the book of Revelation, we as the Beloved Community of GOD are petitioned to embrace the spiritual necessity as well as existential invitation of DIVINE DANGER. Oftentimes, DIVINE DANGER accompanies the life of him/her who thirsts, follows, and is compelled by the intimately transformative presence of GOD. However, the necessity of DIVINE DANGER summons anxiety and fear in the believer as we have trepidation that the requirements will be great and the cost quite high. We embrace the reality that an aspect of the spiritual experience is about euphoric rejoicing, but attempt to stay clear and avoid the aspect of the spiritual life that requires our embrace of DIVINE DANGER! The consolation of the journey accompanied that DIVINE DANGER is that you are NEVER ALONE BELOVED of GOD! ABSOLUTELY NEVER! NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS...GOD! NO MATTER WHAT DOES NOT HAPPEN...GOD! GOD does not lie neither does his word return VOID! Consequently, GOD is mandated by TRUTH to make GOD'S WILL manifest through the presence DIVINE DANGER. Simply stated Beloved, DIVINE DANGER is a very strong indicator that GOD is moving your spiritual life to "shutdown" obstruction and "breakout" abundant living!

While it is instinctive and a critical aspect of our human and animal nature to ensure safety and security, Christians must exercise authentic faith and trust, and resist the spirit of depression and a poverty-stricken spiritual life when DIVINE DANGER reveals itself.

Far too frequently, many of the Beloved of GOD are dismayed, while others are disconcerted, still even others abducted by fear when events and plans do not occur according to plan. Moreover, such distress is ignited like wildfire by the harsh reality when fear, disappointment, loss, and suffering occur when the Beloved of GOD encounter DIVINE DANGER being orchestrated within the confines of the faith community.

Throughout the Holy Writ, we are witness bearers to the reality that quite often a companion of transformation and spiritual enlightenment is the presence of DIVINE DANGER. What an ironic statement we ponder silently, even right now in reading this reflection. When we as witness bearers observe the interaction of Adam and Eve and their interface with the Tree of Knowledge, we witness the interplay of HOPE and DIVINE DANGER. When we as witness bearers observe The Call of Abraham, the promise to Sarah, and the Promise to Hagar from JEHOVAH, we witness the interplay of POTENTIAL, HOPE, PROMISE, and DIVINE DANGER! When we as witness bearers observe the plight of Joseph in having been left in a well, sold, and betrayed, we witness the interplay of TRUST, PATIENCE, GRACE, and DIVINE DANGER. When we as witness bearers observe the marriage of the Bridegroom with the Church as prophesied in the book of Revelation, we witness the interplay of GRACE, RETRIBUTION, VICTORY, FULFILLMENT, MERCY, TRIUMPH, and DIVINE DANGER. When we as witness bearers observe the lives of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Gandhi, Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Gustvas Vassa, unsung Heroes whose names never made history books, our parents and their parents [Heroes and Heroines who knew that they would not witness the manifestation of their labor, sweat, and suffering, but whose journey was filled with PRAYER PASSION that the sacrifice for those unborn would bear witnesses to GOD'S resurrecting power of his SON, a people, a nation, and a legacy that outnumbers stars in the universe], we witness the interplay of HOPE, FREEDOM, DETERMINATION, RESILIENCE, VICTORY, GRACE, and DIVINE DANGER! There are numerous occurrences of this reality. The poignant and compelling question remains: Why is it for some many Christians does this occurrence become disconcerting?

A Closer amplification of the text of Matthew, chapter 28 enables us to observe that CHRIST at anytime could have aborted the journey and ushered in instantaneous justice. However, that which we witness is CHRIST'S sense of purposefulness and his trust in GOD'S outcome instead. Nevertheless, the questions that we petition in the solitude of our solemn reflection are: 1) Why the crown of thorns? 2) Why the mockery and degradation? 3) Why the stripping? 4) Why the beating? 5) Why the mixing of sour wine with gall? 6) Why the casting of lots, 7) Why the interfacing of Simon of Cyrene? Beloved each of the seven inquiries are worthy of an individual "WORD." Consequently, in the forthcoming months, a Seven Part Reflection Series will be forthcoming entitled "Purposefulness, Passion, & Pain: Why?" Nevertheless, the short response that may offer a balm for the moment is LOVE; i.e., GOD'S LOVE!

As we look at current events, both nationally and internationally, injury, destruction, suffering, and the pleasure principle are all at pandemic levels. Sensitivity, patience, morality, the necessity of being our brothers' and sisters' keepers, the honoring of those in their senior years, the feeding of the hungry, team work, the sheltering of the homeless, the liberation of the oppressed, and the readiness to die to CHRIST are all being sacrificed, because the dynamic of DIVINE DANGER accompanies the aforementioned. We deepen our faith walk and our relationship with CHRIST when our journey is accompanied by the divinely dangerous. The spiritual life in CHRIST causes each of us to take risks, walk out on cliffs, venture down unknown paths, abandon that which is familiar and predictable, stand against the crowd, and remain loving and forgiving in the face of betrayals and trap layers! When we abandon the parameters of human reason alone and "tap" the consciousness of GOD, our lives become transformed in our realization that our lives are really not our own, but gifts birthed by the unfathomable love of GOD! DIVINE DANGER causes something to happen to us, with us, and in us as we know that victory and triumph can only come from divine intervention via the LORD! DIVINE DANGER provokes the Beloved to go to the mountain top, see the danger, and the carnal end while commensurately looking into the windowpane of eternity. Consequently, the Beloved is transformed like the face of Moses, the garments of CHRIST, The Underground Railroad of Harriet Tubman, The feeding of thousands by Mother Theresa, The walking on land mines to caress AIDS inflicted babies like Princess Diana, the liberation of the oppressed and DREAM for humanity of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., The willingness to venture down an unknown path like that Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54 Regiment, The prophetic and reflective centering of Reverend Howard Thurman, The impact of symbol and the hero's journey of Joseph Campbell, The resilience to dare to dream like Oladauh Equanio, The quiet reflection of an inner spiritual life like Thomas Merton, The poetic and prophetic passion of melodious poetry of Kahlil Gibran, the displaced Hagar and her son Ishmael [because the Lord hath heard thy affliction Genesis 16:11], and so many others whose songs echo our encouragement in our collective unconscious!

In essence, Beloved of GOD, rejoice because DIVINE DANGER is the indicator that GOD has greater possibilities and blessings on the horizon for specifically for YOU! YOU are an aspect of GOD'S DREAM being fulfilled and GOD'S LOVE regenerating itself!

ISAIAH 55: 11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
K. Mason
(c) 2005

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The DREAM Part IV

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WORD WEEK 03.12.06, 03.19.06, 03.26.06

GOD IS TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!

GENESIS 37:24 KJV

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

GENESIS 37: 28, 36 KJV

Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph into Egypt. And the Midiantes sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

GENESIS 39: 2 KJV

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

The season of Spring has commenced! Humanity bears witness to glimmers of its presence by the precursor of daffodils that have peeked their heads through the earth's winter blanket after several months of dormant slumber. As the winter snow melts into the earth, daffodils have relinquished themselves to the marriage of soil and water and have consummated their union bringing forth brilliant yellow blossoms kissed by the sun itself. These brilliant bright yellow blossoms are reminders to each of us that GOD is still on the throne and that the LORD is speaking to humanity and every living thing in creation. Further reflection upon the presence of the daffodil is a reminder to us that GOD has not forgotten about his promises, but more importantly, that GOD has not forgotten about us!

All winter long we have labored under the hope that daylight would be longer, that the climate would more forthcoming with warmth from the sun, and that the anticipation of the marvelously welcomed unexpected unfolding glory of GOD would become more manifested in our lives! Like the daffodils that seem to stretch their green arms and raise their yellow heads in reverential praise to the majesty, the splendor, and the holiness of GOD, so must we as we anticipate a fresh breath from GOD with the approach of Spring!

As we have trod the challenging paths of Winter, some of us have become acclimated to its barrenness, while others have become immune to its barrenness, and still others have forgotten the barren ground upon which they stand was the place, just months prior, where rich green vegetation was a bold declaration of the resilient nature of GOD'S love, grace, and mercy! Metaphorically, the daily malaise of the Winter season has caused far too many of the LORD'S people to render themselves to abductions, place their faith in "pits," and allow their integrity to be "sold" to questionable euphorically imbued doctrine that causes one to feel wonderful, but has no authentic healing, convicting, humbling, nor transformative power! Significantly, many of GOD'S people have waited and are just shy of a few minutes of giving up and giving in, but you must not! Spring will come commensurately with the manifestation of GOD'S blessings, healing, deliverance, and renewal in your life beloved of GOD!

As the events unfold in the Narrative of Genesis 37:24, Joseph's brothers conspired a plan to destroy him as he disclosed a dream that indicated that his brothers would one day bow down themselves before him. Joseph's brothers conspired to kill him. However, one brother, Rueben petitioned them to refrain in exchange for Joseph's coat of many colors and smeared it with a kid's blood so Jacob would think that his younger son was dead. While the events were unfolding in the bloodline of Jacob, they were simultaneously and metaphorically functioning as a part of GOD'S plan in the intertwined nature of Israel and Egypt. The LORD rendered guidance to Joseph who had witnessed the moral decay and fallen victim, repeatedly, to the psychospiritual erosion of GOD'S people. Circumstances of despair and the proliferation of human pathos had escalated in the land. A reversal of fortune was foreshadowed in that GOD'S people would eat their food in frenzy, drink their water in desolation, and recline upon their beds of rumination, for their land would be stripped of everything in it because of the presence of idolatry in its varied forms. Significantly, what was becoming clear was that GOD was speaking, but his people were not listening. Ironically, even at present, not only are GOD'S people not hearing his voice, but far too many of GOD'S people have loss their dreams, even more of them have forsaken the passion of the dream, and still even more of them, the gift to interpret the dream! Spring is the reminder for each of us that even during the months of Winter that "God Is Trying To Tell You Something."

Part I THE PIT

As the events unfold in the text, we become witness bearers to a plan conspired by the brothers of Joseph to destroy him. We did not arrive on the scene with these brothers via our own volition, but via circumstance. These brothers, who are completely unaware of our presence began to contrive a plan. While we, the witness bearers, are praying and hoping that what Satan met for evil, but GOD for good would result in an optimistic outcome, we are unable to access Joseph to inform him that danger was on the horizon! While the brothers have some change of heart, not so much about what to do, but how to implement a plan by which to exonerate themselves, they decide to place Joseph in a pit and leave him for dead!

As each of us have traveled upon his/her spiritual journey, we have, at sometime on that journey, been waylaid by "PITS!" In some instances, we have seen these PITS from afar. Consequently, we have been able to sidestep them for prepare for the "shock" of becoming intimately acquainted with them. In other instances, even more dangerous are the PITS that we do not see nor expect. Even more compelling, devastating, and disempowering are the PITS that are prescribed by those whom we love, trust, and to whom we have been entrusted! It is like one walking down the street and unknowingly walking into a manhole or stepping into a hole that completely throws off one's balance/equilibrium causing shock, sprains, fractures, and brokenness, not only to the body, but to the integrity and the spirit of the victim! Help us GOD! Joseph was in a PIT and so was his hope, future, and his life!

PITS are the kinds of situations that have the propensity to destroy or transform us! We have witnessed the pandemic and pervasive impact of the manner in which these PITS manifest such destructive tenants in the sanctioned suffering, the moral malignance, the physical perniciousness, the economic emasculation, the spiritual slaughter, the emotional exploitation, and the psychological plutocracy of far too many innocent people! When one falls into a PIT, the critical thing that one must do is to look up! One must in the words of the psalmist acknowledge that "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth." Psalm 121:1-2.

Part II SOLD

As the narrative continues to unfold, Joseph is rescued from the PIT into which he was placed by his brothers. He is SOLD by the Midianites into Egypt to Potiphar, an Officer of Pharaoh and Captain of the Guard. We might imagine that Joseph wondered where the hand of GOD was in all of this mishap! When a human being is SOLD, it is such a dehumanizing travesty to the human condition and the human soul as it has the propensity to strip the dignity and character of him/her who is sold like property!

Moreover, further reflection upon this dynamic of being SOLD is a tragic, yet a critical part of one's ability to understand the historical significance and pathos of Africans/African Americans who journeyed from the banks of Africa through the Middle Passage to the islands, states, and other countries into the disempowering system of slavery.

While history has offered society many valuable lessons, many of these unlearned lessons reveal themselves in a plethora of variations. When one considers the dynamic of being SOLD, many women are prostituted across national and international boarders and even right in our own communities. Significantly, children are abducted, sold, abused, and murdered under the canopy of being rescued! Help us GOD! Additionally, far too frequently, GOD'S PEOPLE are selling themselves short of the fulfillment of GOD'S plans for their lives, as they sell out for popularity, association, prestige, recognition, acceptance, and favor! The act of being SOLD has a very high price, one of which yields painful returns and life-denying interest; for Joseph is was twenty pieces of silver, for the exploitation of women and children the range is $10.00 with no ceiling, and for JESUS, the price was thirty pieces of silver via Judas Iscariot! Oh if we had the wings of a dove we would fly away and be at rest we muse!

Part III THE BETRAYAL

Commensurate with our desire for renewal, peace, and joy, the world, the nation, and our communities have been severely impacted by suffering, despair, brokenness, woundedness, and catastrophe. As many of us allow ourselves to be present to this reality, we, GOD'S people, sometimes feel helpless and hypocritical as we pray, sing, and praise GOD on Sunday, but neglect to exhibit a spirit of gentleness, love, compassion, understanding, encouragement, and empathy to those who we encounter the remaining days of the week. Betrayal sometimes is readily witnessed in overt instances, but even more toxic, devastating, and deadly it has the potential to be when it is implemented in the dark, in secrecy, covertly! Significantly, far too many persons' lives have been radically altered as a consequence of no volition of their own implementation, but by the hands of those who abuse and inappropriately dislodge power. Have mercy upon us LORD, we pray!

Trust may take a lifetime to establish and betrayal has the power to destroy such trust in seconds! Joseph was betrayed by his blood and those whom professed to love him. Jesus was betrayed by those whom he nurtured, loved, healed, protected, and those for whom he would die! If the truth were uttered, you, Beloved of GOD have been betrayed by false hopes, relationships, friendships, family, the faith community, and even at times by "self" in believing that your circumstances are too complex and anchored in a miry pit, or sold to the land of no return for the power of GOD to work in and through such circumstances.

As we look at the narrative of the plight of Joseph, he remains anchored by the GOD on the inside of him and not anxiety-ridden by the small gods outside of him that were invested in his undermining!

Nevertheless, as PEOPLE of GOD, this does not mean that we must refrain from reckoning with the reality of PITS, BEING SOLD, and BETRAYAL in our lives! BETRAYALS in and of themselves wound the psyche, PITS cause spiritual neurological damage, and BEING SOLD causes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder...TRAUMA! Joseph offers us hope and petitions each of us that "GOD IS TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!"

The aforementioned statement is critically significant, because circumstances have the propensity to cause even the most grounded Christian to call into question the fruition of GOD'S word amidst the onslaught of a the triple threat of THE PIT, SELLING, and BETRAYAL experiences.

Part IV THE DREAM

The DREAM Part IV WORD WEEK 04-02-06

Joseph's life journey was one of perpetual change, uprootings, misperceptions, betrayals, frequent interruptions, abrupt departures, and vanquished victories. In light of being left for dead, being sold as property, and being repeatedly betrayed, Joseph remained grounded; not so much by his own might, but by the fire of GOD on the inside of him which could not be vanquished or extinguished! Metaphorically, Joseph's resilience was like that of the embers of a burning log. Subsequently, an unexpectant gentle wind, like the gentle breath of GOD, provided these embers with enough oxygen to reignite the flame that was once at risk of extinction.

Significantly, while circumstances were rapidly and radically changing, the only anchor to which Joseph had left to adhere was his dream and the power of his dream. In many instances, GOD'S faithful people have found themselves amidst circumstances that create spiritual arrest. Far too often, GOD'S people are left stunned and dissolusioned by the inconsistencies, injustices, and paradoxes that are the essence of a spiritual life. While many of GOD'S people know that there is no problem too big for the LORD, many of his Beloved have found reprieve not so much in the actual manifestation of liberation from their suffering, but in the liberation which is yet to come. Dreams have been the catalyst that enabled the wounded to remain buoyant like that of a raft being carried adrift by the ripples of the river to its destination. Moreover, when one reflects upon "spirit of resilence" which kept slaves going admist inhumane conditions, it was not so much the liberation of those within the clutches of slavery that kept them going, but the liberation of their beautiful ones yet to be born. It was the both the passion and spirit of the "DREAM" that enabled slaves to anchor themselves to the GREAT EMANCIPATOR , JEHOVAH-JIREH !

Dreams are seeds of infinite possibilities that GOD placed within the soul of his Beloved before eternity delivered itself to the flesh of humanity in the birth of a baby. Joseph was given the ability to interpret dreams in the morning of his years. However, the trails and challenges of his moving in sync with GOD could only be developed by the experiences that he incurred. If one were looking from the outside in, it might be easy to surmise that GOD was allowing circumstances to denigrate Joseph. However, on the contrary ; i.e., GOD was using Joseph's circumstances as a means to develop character, compassion, love, and as a means to fulfill the "DREAM."

Many years prior, as the Beloved of GOD launched out in the morning of their journey, many of them had hope as high as the heavens and dreams that dared to dream even greater dreams! Unfortunately, far too many of GOD'S Beloved have abandoned their dreams as life became too challenging; i.e., too difficult. Consequently, their immersion into "PITS," their being "SOLD" into the captivity of self-centeredness; complacency; fear; anxiety; bitterness; vindictiveness; greed; lust; envy; jealousy; hatred; deception, and the repeated "BETRAYALS" of life has caused their souls to become parched and their spirits to experience famine. Throughout the Holy Text, GOD illustrates his deep love for humanity in the expression of dreams repeatedly. Consequently, Joseph offers us an opportunity for regeneration when we realize that the gift that was the catalyst for fraternal jealousy and potentially fratricide, was the same gift, when tempered with grace and compassion enabled him to be forgiving to those whom hurt and betrayed him.

"DREAMS" propel us when reality tells us the our wings are broken and we cannot fly! "DREAMS" are the promise for a new day when the day appears dark! "DREAMS" are GOD'S love covenant to humanity. "DREAMS" are language that are spoken to us not only during daylight, but during twilight as well! "DREAMS" defy the odds! "DREAMS" defy death! "DREAMS" are to the soul was blood is to the body! "DREAMS" have built nations! "DREAMS" have torn down walls of injustice and inequality! "DREAMS" defy fear! "DREAMS" are Psalms of hope from GOD! "DREAMS" are GOD'S love song to the Beloved! "DREAMS" never die because GOD is the author of them! "DREAMS" are like the caterpillar the breaks open its own skin from the chrysalis to become a brightly-winged thing of beauty! "DREAMS" are the very breath of GOD! "DREAMS" are the drops of JESUS' blood shed for the remission of sin and an expression of a love supreme! "DREAMS" caused Joseph to be placed in a "PIT" and left for dead! "DREAMS" are the gift from GOD which made Joseph a ruler over a nation! "DREAMS" are the physical manifestation of that which the spirit has already experienced! Consequently, what Joseph offers those of the house of faith is the reality that behind every "PIT" experience, behind every experience of being "SOLD," and behind every encounter with betrayal, therein lies a "DREAM" that desires to be birthed!

Trust the LORD and embrace the unfathomable...YOUR DREAM

As we approach the manifestation of the promises of GOD, let us do so with a greater degree of reverence and intimacy to GOD as we are compelled by our potential under the light of the brilliance of the CHRIST, convicted by "TRUTH" and transformed by "LOVE" to which we have tenaciously cleaved, and enraptured in the presence of GOD'S healing love!

K. Mason
(c) 2005

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GOD IS TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING PART I, II, III

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WORD WEEK 03.12.06, 03.19.06, 03.26.06

GOD IS TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!

GENESIS 37:24 KJV

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

GENESIS 37: 28, 36 KJV

Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph into Egypt. And the Midiantes sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

GENESIS 39: 2 KJV

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

The season of Spring has commenced! Humanity bears witness to glimmers of its presence by the precursor of daffodils that have peeked their heads through the earth's winter blanket after several months of dormant slumber. As the winter snow melts into the earth, daffodils have relinquished themselves to the marriage of soil and water and have consummated their union bringing forth brilliant yellow blossoms kissed by the sun itself. These brilliant bright yellow blossoms are reminders to each of us that GOD is still on the throne and that the LORD is speaking to humanity and every living thing in creation. Further reflection upon the presence of the daffodil is a reminder to us that GOD has not forgotten about his promises, but more importantly, that GOD has not forgotten about us!

All winter long we have labored under the hope that daylight would be longer, that the climate would more forthcoming with warmth from the sun, and that the anticipation of the marvelously welcomed unexpected unfolding glory of GOD would become more manifested in our lives! Like the daffodils that seem to stretch their green arms and raise their yellow heads in reverential praise to the majesty, the splendor, and the holiness of GOD, so must we as we anticipate a fresh breath from GOD with the approach of Spring!

As we have trod the challenging paths of Winter, some of us have become acclimated to its barrenness, while others have become immune to its barrenness, and still others have forgotten the barren ground upon which they stand was the place, just months prior, where rich green vegetation was a bold declaration of the resilient nature of GOD'S love, grace, and mercy! Metaphorically, the daily malaise of the Winter season has caused far too many of the LORD'S people to render themselves to abductions, place their faith in "pits," and allow their integrity to be "sold" to questionable euphorically imbued doctrine that causes one to feel wonderful, but has no authentic healing, convicting, humbling, nor transformative power! Significantly, many of GOD'S people have waited and are just shy of a few minutes of giving up and giving in, but you must not! Spring will come commensurately with the manifestation of GOD'S blessings, healing, deliverance, and renewal in your life beloved of GOD!

As the events unfold in the Narrative of Genesis 37:24, Joseph's brothers conspired a plan to destroy him as he disclosed a dream that indicated that his brothers would one day bow down themselves before him. Joseph's brothers conspired to kill him. However, one brother, Rueben petitioned them to refrain in exchange for Joseph's coat of many colors and smeared it with a kid's blood so Jacob would think that his younger son was dead. While the events were unfolding in the bloodline of Jacob, they were simultaneously and metaphorically functioning as a part of GOD'S plan in the intertwined nature of Israel and Egypt. The LORD rendered guidance to Joseph who had witnessed the moral decay and fallen victim, repeatedly, to the psychospiritual erosion of GOD'S people. Circumstances of despair and the proliferation of human pathos had escalated in the land. A reversal of fortune was foreshadowed in that GOD'S people would eat their food in frenzy, drink their water in desolation, and recline upon their beds of rumination, for their land would be stripped of everything in it because of the presence of idolatry in its varied forms. Significantly, what was becoming clear was that GOD was speaking, but his people were not listening. Ironically, even at present, not only are GOD'S people not hearing his voice, but far too many of GOD'S people have loss their dreams, even more of them have forsaken the passion of the dream, and still even more of them, the gift to interpret the dream! Spring is the reminder for each of us that even during the months of Winter that "God Is Trying To Tell You Something."

Part I THE PIT

As the events unfold in the text, we become witness bearers to a plan conspired by the brothers of Joseph to destroy him. We did not arrive on the scene with these brothers via our own volition, but via circumstance. These brothers, who are completely unaware of our presence began to contrive a plan. While we, the witness bearers, are praying and hoping that what Satan met for evil, but GOD for good would result in an optimistic outcome, we are unable to access Joseph to inform him that danger was on the horizon! While the brothers have some change of heart, not so much about what to do, but how to implement a plan by which to exonerate themselves, they decide to place Joseph in a pit and leave him for dead!

As each of us have traveled upon his/her spiritual journey, we have, at sometime on that journey, been waylaid by "PITS!" In some instances, we have seen these PITS from afar. Consequently, we have been able to sidestep them for prepare for the "shock" of becoming intimately acquainted with them. In other instances, even more dangerous are the PITS that we do not see nor expect. Even more compelling, devastating, and disempowering are the PITS that are prescribed by those whom we love, trust, and to whom we have been entrusted! It is like one walking down the street and unknowingly walking into a manhole or stepping into a hole that completely throws off one's balance/equilibrium causing shock, sprains, fractures, and brokenness, not only to the body, but to the integrity and the spirit of the victim! Help us GOD! Joseph was in a PIT and so was his hope, future, and his life!

PITS are the kinds of situations that have the propensity to destroy or transform us! We have witnessed the pandemic and pervasive impact of the manner in which these PITS manifest such destructive tenants in the sanctioned suffering, the moral malignance, the physical perniciousness, the economic emasculation, the spiritual slaughter, the emotional exploitation, and the psychological plutocracy of far too many innocent people! When one falls into a PIT, the critical thing that one must do is to look up! One must in the words of the psalmist acknowledge that "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth." Psalm 121:1-2.

Part II SOLD

As the narrative continues to unfold, Joseph is rescued from the PIT into which he was placed by his brothers. He is SOLD by the Midianites into Egypt to Potiphar, an Officer of Pharaoh and Captain of the Guard. We might imagine that Joseph wondered where the hand of GOD was in all of this mishap! When a human being is SOLD, it is such a dehumanizing travesty to the human condition and the human soul as it has the propensity to strip the dignity and character of him/her who is sold like property!

Moreover, further reflection upon this dynamic of being SOLD is a tragic, yet a critical part of one's ability to understand the historical significance and pathos of Africans/African Americans who journeyed from the banks of Africa through the Middle Passage to the islands, states, and other countries into the disempowering system of slavery.

While history has offered society many valuable lessons, many of these unlearned lessons reveal themselves in a plethora of variations. When one considers the dynamic of being SOLD, many women are prostituted across national and international boarders and even right in our own communities. Significantly, children are abducted, sold, abused, and murdered under the canopy of being rescued! Help us GOD! Additionally, far too frequently, GOD'S PEOPLE are selling themselves short of the fulfillment of GOD'S plans for their lives, as they sell out for popularity, association, prestige, recognition, acceptance, and favor! The act of being SOLD has a very high price, one of which yields painful returns and life-denying interest; for Joseph is was twenty pieces of silver, for the exploitation of women and children the range is $10.00 with no ceiling, and for JESUS, the price was thirty pieces of silver via Judas Iscariot! Oh if we had the wings of a dove we would fly away and be at rest we muse!

Part III THE BETRAYAL

Commensurate with our desire for renewal, peace, and joy, the world, the nation, and our communities have been severely impacted by suffering, despair, brokenness, woundedness, and catastrophe. As many of us allow ourselves to be present to this reality, we, GOD'S people, sometimes feel helpless and hypocritical as we pray, sing, and praise GOD on Sunday, but neglect to exhibit a spirit of gentleness, love, compassion, understanding, encouragement, and empathy to those who we encounter the remaining days of the week. Betrayal sometimes is readily witnessed in overt instances, but even more toxic, devastating, and deadly it has the potential to be when it is implemented in the dark, in secrecy, covertly! Significantly, far too many persons' lives have been radically altered as a consequence of no volition of their own implementation, but by the hands of those who abuse and inappropriately dislodge power. Have mercy upon us LORD, we pray!

Trust may take a lifetime to establish and betrayal has the power to destroy such trust in seconds! Joseph was betrayed by his blood and those whom professed to love him. Jesus was betrayed by those whom he nurtured, loved, healed, protected, and those for whom he would die! If the truth were uttered, you, Beloved of GOD have been betrayed by false hopes, relationships, friendships, family, the faith community, and even at times by "self" in believing that your circumstances are too complex and anchored in a miry pit, or sold to the land of no return for the power of GOD to work in and through such circumstances.

As we look at the narrative of the plight of Joseph, he remains anchored by the GOD on the inside of him and not anxiety-ridden by the small gods outside of him that were invested in his undermining!

Nevertheless, as PEOPLE of GOD, this does not mean that we must refrain from reckoning with the reality of PITS, BEING SOLD, and BETRAYAL in our lives! BETRAYALS in and of themselves wound the psyche, PITS cause spiritual neurological damage, and BEING SOLD causes Posttraumatic Stress Disorder...TRAUMA! Joseph offers us hope and petitions each of us that "GOD IS TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING!"

The aforementioned statement is critically significant, because circumstances have the propensity to cause even the most grounded Christian to call into question the fruition of GOD'S word amidst the onslaught of a the triple threat of THE PIT, SELLING, and BETRAYAL experiences.

Part IV THE DREAM

The DREAM Part IV will be the Word Of Reflection Devotion for the week of 04-02-06

As we approach the manifestation of the promises of GOD, let us do so with a greater degree of reverence and intimacy to GOD as we are compelled by our potential under the light of the brilliance of the CHRIST, convicted by "TRUTH" and transformed by "LOVE" to which we have tenaciously cleaved, and enraptured in the presence of GOD'S healing love!

ISAIAH 55: 11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

K. Mason
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YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LORD TOLD ME

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WORD WEEK 03-05-06

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LORD TOLD ME!

GENESIS 7:1 KJV

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

ISAIAH 55: 11 KJV

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.


The year 2006 is underway and ushers our hopes, aspirations, and dreams like the flutter of birds wings in early Spring upon the breath of GOD! Many of GOD'S people have renewed their the commitment and covenant to the LORD in anticipation of a deeper experience with THE HOLY and THE DIVINE. Moreover, our sense of renewal provokes the reignition of our hopes as we surge forth into a year of the unknown; a year in anticipation of new beginnings; a year of answered prayers for deliverance.

Ironically, commensurate with our desire for renewal, peace, and joy, the world, the nation, and our communities have been severely impacted by suffering, despair, brokenness, woundedness, and catastrophe. As many of us allow ourselves to be present to this reality, we can still hear the echoes of winter winds sing of the imminence of difficult times and divine danger in the air. Already in the year 2006, we have witnessed pandemic suffering, moral decay, and the physical, economic, spiritual, emotional, and psychological slaughter of many innocent people in the infancy of the New Year! It is only March and so many persons' lives have been radically altered as a consequence of no volition of their own implementation, but by the hands of those who abuse and inappropriately dislodge power. Have mercy upon us LORD, we pray!

As the events unfold in the Narrative of Genesis 7:1, The LORD rendered guidance to Noah who had witnessed the moral decay and the psychospiritual erosion of GOD'S people. Circumstances of despair and the proliferation of human pathos had become so pandemic in the land that it would not be long before GOD'S people would eat their food in anxiety, drink their water in despair, and recline upon their beds of affliction, for their land would be stripped of everything in it because of the presence of violence, a lack of love, a lack of tolerance, and the malignant narcissism of many persons who resided in the land. The inhabited towns were destined to become an utter wasteland like that of the "Slough of Despond" in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Suffering was on the agenda. Only then would humanity come to reckon with the sovereignty of the LORD. Consequently, Noah's instructions and actions in the construction of an ark functioned as a metaphor of GOD'S invitation to grace and love to all of humanity.

An amplified view of the text enables us to learn that the embrace of "TRUTH" tempered by both "LOVE" and "WISDOM" is available to all who are amenable to hear. What might we do if we had to dislodge our baggage of fear, uncertainty, and pseudo-control? Who would we become? Where would we go? How would we face ourselves, not only in our mourning, but in the morning as well as throughout the day many of GOD'S people muse? Importantly, we do not know quite where to begin, much less fathom or integrate the coexistence of "LOVE" and "TRUTH" of this caliber as we are invited to embrace a deeper awareness that no one has ever loved us, protected us, not cradled us like GOD! Significantly, while unquenchable anticipation and unrestrained hope have now come to cosmically divine fruition, "LOVE" has come to each of us as we intimately encounter the presence of "The Holy" in the air.
Consequently, while the marriage and the manifestation of prophetic fulfillment and the eschatological incarnation has embodied itself in the logos, "reason" evades our consciousness as the boundary of "LOVE" knows no depth, no height, no breath, nor scope for which "anything that was," "anything that is," and "anything that shall be" can elude its presence.

An amplified look at the Flood Narrative provides us with a compelling glimpse of the intertwined nature of the coexistence joy and solemnity as the Wise Old Man, Noah, and, significantly, his family became the catalyst for GOD'S love covenant with humanity and salvific hope for a brand new day! As Christians, we become witnesses to both death and life. As Christians, we become witnesses to destruction and construction. As Christians, we become witnesses to annihilation and preservation. As observers, we become witnesses to the psychology that functioned as the buttress for both the community and the world by and large. Moreover, on some level, we become observers and co-members of the human condition who struggle with the compelling invitation to radical self-transformation, deep introspection required both by compassion and the petition for a deeper altruistic expression of love for such a momentous event as the onslaught of a flood. The Flood Narrative offers the community of faith an anchor in stormy times which suggests that subsequent to the proclamation of the logos, a spirit of change was imminent for humanity as life was about to radically change in the manner in which it was once experienced! While the chosen, Wise Old Man, Noah, was given the news of GOD'S divine favor, he was not initially cognizant of the implication of being chosen; neither was humanity then, nor in subsequent light years. In essence, life happens! Floods do also! However, rainbows follow, if one dares to look!

Nevertheless, as PEOPLE of GOD, we must reckon with the reality of floods in our lives! Floods in and of themselves may cause one's perspective to change or might represent a myriad of challenges and invites for GOD'S PEOPLE: For some, Floods might represent a lineage of strong family ties and/or tradition that prohibits genuine growth and spiritual autonomy; for others, Floods might represent a desire to maintain the status quo, a rote existence, or one's acceptance into the circle of the elite; still for others, Floods might represent the desire to remain connected to a relationship that is unhealthy and unproductive, a friendship that is barren, but perfunctory, a self-concept that perpetuates the illusion of self-importance as it has become confused about the owner of such unclaimed and displaced baggage; even still for others, Floods might represent one's investment in rejection, depression, loneliness, failure, shame, co-dependence, anger, grief, guilt, self-entitlement, and placing others on probation to vindicate and/or ameliorate one's own woundedness. FLOODS! Floods, they are powerful and quite real! When we are not spiritually anchored, floods have the capacity to wash away all that we deem valuable. If the truth were told, Floods have the capacity to sweep us away with them if we are not anchored to the love of GOD!

Despite the occurrence of floods, which we know from the Holy Text as well as the Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in contemporary times, GOD'S PEOPLE must attune their ears to hear HIS voice as it is GOD whose voice can still winds and calm storms. Noah offers us hope and petitions us to remember what GOD has told YOU! The aforementioned statement is critically significant, because circumstances have the propensity to cause even the most grounded Christian to call into question the fruition of GOD'S word amidst the onslaught of a flood. Flood-impact is undoubtedly daunting and devastating to say the least. The onslaught of floods appear virtually inescapable by any human being, yet have the potential for healing and recovery with care, insight, attention, safety, deep love, abiding empathy, and the presence of The Holy Spirit. The opportunity to be a servant of the LORD has afforded me myriad opportunities to visit the sacred ground of men, women, and children who are hurt; deeply hurt; some even beyond there own recognition. Consequently, false recovery from flood-impact may disguise itself as bravado or overconfidence. Flood-impact may produce a malignant distrust of those who are benevolent. Flood-impact may cause many persons to shut themselves off from genuine love. Flood-impact may cause others to be on the fast track to achieve euphoric frenzy. Flood-impact may cause still others to neglect the painful truth of acknowledging and doing something about their own woundedness. Flood-impact may cause even others to be defended and consequently push away those persons/things that they desire the greatest level of intimacy.

Despite the discouragement, despite the lack of support, despite the exclusion, despite the shut doors, despite the limitations, despite the presence of fear, despite the forces of darkness, and despite the infractions, Noah kept building and so must you as child of he who specializes in the construction of lifeboats, whose name is GOD!

Consequently, Noah's narrative offers each of us a reminder to hold fast; to cling to the unshakable promise of GOD! You might be wondering if you have heard correctly when circumstances or the opinions of others have caused you to stop in your tracks or even call yourself into question. The response to this type of thinking is to reply: "You don't know what the LORD told me!" When requested to elaborate about that which you have stated, summons the promises of the LORD.

THE LORD HAS TOLD YOU:

To remain in his word that you cannot fail

To remember that He is a GOD much stronger then Baal

To remember by HIS stripes you are healed

To remember in a sepulcher they tried to seal

To remember that He knew you before you were formed in your mother's womb

To remember in HIS divine kingdom that there is plenty good room

To remember that the land you will possess

To remember that in HIM that there is joy and rest

To remember that you are blessed and not cursed

To remember that He has given you power that will be dispersed

To remember that you have power over your enemies

To remember that He promises you lands that you have yet to see

To remember that HE will supply your every need

To remember that we are the inherited from Abraham's seed

To remember He is a GOD who cannot lie

To remember that He is the JEHOVAH-JIREH, JEHOVAH-NISSU, THE GREAT JEHOVAH EL SHADDAI

(c) K. Mason 2006

As we approach the manifestation of the promises of GOD, let us do so with a greater degree of reverence and intimacy to GOD as we are compelled by our potential under the light of the brilliance of the CHRIST, convicted by "TRUTH" and transformed by "LOVE" to which we have tenaciously cleaved, and enraptured in the presence of GOD'S healing love!
ISAIAH 55: 11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

K. Mason
(c) 2005

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