"Hey Precha'!"

Hey Precha' while you up da preaching why don't cha preach 'bout sumpin' people need to hear.

Don't cha open yo gold teeth mouf talkin 'bout tithing neither! I am sick of hearing 'bout tithing! Ain't nobody in dis church benefited from tithing but you. I'm trying to get to heaben. I want to live right. I want to love my brother. I want to serve the LAWD!

Won't cha let me serve de LAWD? Don't be assin' me 'bout my gross pay. You done gon from trying to preach to signifying. I ain't too dumb, dat ain't what Jesus say. Jesus said to give your alms in secret. No maybe Ah didn't finish high school but I got a GED and I do know how to read.

You bedder tell dese children that "A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies."

You know dese children ain't do nuttin in dese schools but taking up space and cuttin de fool. They coming outta school just as dumb as when da furst went in. Ain't learned nuttin but how to cuss and fornicate. Lazy, won't work, having babies, laying up on da parents. Dey a generation of vipers and we the parents just looking. Haf us scared of um. Let the children run over us. Dese rascals will cuss you out and come back and ass you fa some money. Think grown folks ain't got no sense.

You up there in the pulpit actin' like you deaf and dumb. Help dese parents. Tell dese children what the Bible says. "Good understanding giveth favor; but the way of the transgressor is hard. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding."

Where you get your sermons from anyway? Off da innernet?

Let me tell you sumpin' buddy. You just talk about Jesus! You ain't Jesus. I believe you got yo'sef mixed up. How I look helping you drive a Bently and I don't even have Marta fare?

I know what precha! When we gon do like they did in the book of Acts and break out and share. Tell me because I don't want to miss dat Sunday. "And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need." You start doin dat in the church you won't have no where to put de people.

Hey Precha' tell dem "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THE LAST DAYS, SAITH GOD, I WILL POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH: AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS:"

Precha' I don't mean to criticize ya but you can't tell them wha'ca don't know.

Read and study your Bible so that you can tell them; "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED!" dat's including you passa'.

Well I gotta go now. I got to go and pray fa de President. He is a good man but da treating him just like a nigga. Yes suh I said nigga cause that is what they call him Dat's what day call you and me. But Amerryca bout to find out that there ain't but one color dat count and dat's green.

I'll be seeing ya. Keep yoursef up much as you can.

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You have just read an excerpt from my book of short stories. He is a character molded in my grandfather's image. His name is Jeremiah Malachi. He is a self educated Christian, a wise seer and a kind admonisher.

Be a Blessing and be blessed. "Keep yourself up much as you can."

Much Love, Peace and Happiness,
Rachel