Time to go back to the "mourner's bench" John Lee Hooker Moanin ' Blues

One of my best and most vivid memories is of the "moan'ner's bench" in Wesley Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,  in Wade Station, North Carolina.

I was two, three, four years old, just a toddler held in church all day , every Sunday.  It was fun. Granddaddy bathed us in  an old rusty tin tub the night before, "Saddy-night".  Lotioned us up with Jergens' and petroleum Vasoline.

We ate grits, (fried) fatback ,  (sopped) molasses and biscuits . Put on our "Sunday-go-to-meeting" clothes and WALKED  through the woods, a marshy swamp,  to church.  There was no air conditioning, screened windows, or an organ. The wasps swarmed , lighting on people just to determine fear.

There were times some sought solace on that "mourner's bench".  People really did moan.  Some wailed.  Jet black ladies dressed in all white nurses uniforms comforted them.  Rubbing their backs with their snow white gloved hands.  Some fanned them.  Some would faint and the nurse/ushers pulled out those capsules.  They would crack a capsule under some poor victim's nose, overcome with grief and help revive them.

Some down there on their knees were afraid but,  some were brave,  My grandfather was brave.  No,  he didn't git down on the "moan'ner's bench". He was too tall, too stiff with rheumatoid arthritis.  He leaned back in a cane bottomed straight chair and prayed for me, prayed for us.  Jerome Walters stood in the gap for me! For us! Praise the LORD!

While there are many that will "fall away" (2 Thessalonians 2:3) , join forces with tRump because  they are of little faith, have low character, have low morales are still debilitated by Mathy's two-edged tongue.  We suffer with debilitating fear, that is why we acquiesce, play docile, "wear the mask",  commit vile degrading acts,  in order to placate wo/men we perceive to be "powerful".

We are ALL powerful!   We all have Holy Ghost Power!   "Resist the devil and s/he will flee."   tRump has called out far too many enemies at the exact same time. "When you fail to plan, you plan to fail."

 All People of Color, Gays, women, Transgender, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the educated.  How can evil win? It never has!

The Scripture says this mongrel shall proceed no further!

One thing for sure, he offers a clear choice.

REVERSE THE CURSE!

"COME YE OUT FROM AMONG THEM!" Episcopal Zi