"Honor thy Father and Mother!"

For sure! This is a commandment.  "Honor thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.' (Ephesians 6:2-3)  No doubt, that is an excellent admonition.  But, let's not neglect a very important part.  "Parents provoke not your children to wrath less they become discouraged." (Colossians 3:21)   "And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the LORD." (Ephesians 6:4)

"Ladies" you can not be a neglectful, abusive, sadistic mother and demand to be honored because you have forced your victims to call you mother.  Come out from behind that rock Mathy!  You know better.  You preached the sermon and you bragged about it.

"I was invited to be the guest speaker for the Mother's Day luncheon.  I took my props you know.  I had my cabbage patch doll.  I told them the story  .......(ya da ya da) take the baby and nurture it for me and I will pay you your wages."

The fact that you preached these words means that you know better.  You know full well you have not earned any wages.  My brother became a medical doctor and could not enjoy his own graduation for you begging and demanding. "XXX, I want you to buy me a house, a brand new Cadillac and a mink coat."

It has always been "me-me-me" with you.  You didn't send or give him one red cent in college or medical school.  True, you did sneak and buy him an old car.  (He couldn't tell me because I would have felt slighted)
What's with you always making us keep secrets?  You pretending that we are the chosen ones, your one golden child.  Keeping us separate, divided.  Promoting jealousy and suspicion.   "You know I can't stand dem begging n******.  They only come tuh see me when dey need sumptin' or begging and stealing.  I don't want them damn black a** n**** in my house. Dey don't love me lak you do."

When you are a good mother, a good parent, you don't have to be two-faced, you don't have to be phony and manipulative.  You don't have to lie and put on a show.  You don't have to hate or be jealous.

The fact is, you have to be honest and forth right.  There is no getting around it.  You can't win.  "Know ye the Truth!"

The sad fact is there are so many mothers like you.  We all see them everyday.  Women dressed to the nines and their little children ragged, snotty nosed and unkempt.   You can see the neglect in their sad little eyes.

Didn't you know that you would be found out?  You preached it!  Tomorrow is Father's Day.  GOD gifted you with the greatest, wisest, loving Christian father a daughter could have.  You holler; "Honor thy father and mother!" the loudest.

Come on now, when are you going to come clean?  A lie can't live forever.  Are you willing to spend eternity roasting in hell before you will humble yourself before the LORD and ask for forgiveness? Really?  Are you that stubborn, that lost?

You know why your sons will not say a word against you.  You instilled devastating fear.  You were no more than a savage ignorant brute.  I am intrigued by my own story.  I am amazed how you could behave like the loving protective mother in front of people but revert to the sickest sadistic monster just as soon as their backs were turned.

GOD is telling me that you knew all the time.  That you confused treachery and sadism with intelligence, cruelty with courage.  You always demanded to be the smartest, the prettiest.  You demanded to be worshiped.  It's funny, Cinderella was one of my favorite fairy tales.  I likened  myself to her.  I was a modern day black Cinderella.  You were my evil stepsisters.  Yes, stepsisters, because you had so many different personalities.  Each one more evil than the last.

So, you don't like me talking about you.  You said that I remember too much and should shut up; "jest git ova' it!"  Well I can't.  How can a person get over 62 years of clandestine covert and overt abuse over night?

True, I knew all the time but I was frozen in fear and disbelief.  True, I talk to you and talk about you every day.  There is not a day that passes that I don't find myself crying or cursing over some horrible act you committed against me or my siblings, or some family member or friend.

No! you must be talked about.  You must be known to the world.  The Holy Ghost compels me to tell this story.   If you didn't want me to tell it, you should not have done it.  Or at least known when to stop.  The fact is you are still a practicing "Root Worker" right now.  This very minute you are seething with anger and contempt.  You hate GOD! Mad as hell that your daddy was right.  Mad as hell with me for being stupid enough to listen to him.  Well, miss mam, I had to gravitate to my grandfather because you certainly rebuked, rebuffed and ridiculed me.

But, look at the Goodness of GOD.  GOD is still waiting.  He is standing there in front of you with His hand out stretched.  Won't you come? Won't you finally confess?  Aren't you tired of living a life of sin?

Let that ignorance go and turn to Jesus.  Get on your knees, confess your sins.   Don't hate me because you are getting your "just and honest due".  Don't hate me because GOD is "righting all wrongs".  I didn't make this world and I sure didn't make myself.

I must laugh at the irony of our predicament.  You have stalked me for 62 years pretending that you love me with nothing but sabotage on your mind.  Since my birth you have attempted to block my blessings.  You successfully destroyed practically every piece of prose and poetry I ever wrote.  You destroyed my master's thesis.  All, to prevent me from becoming a published author because you blamed my birth for your lack of success.

Now look at me! Look at us! You gave me the most fascinating page turning book every written.  "To GOD be the Glory!"

Stay in His WORD children.  Remember; "Apart from Christ we are nothing,"

May GOD's Grace, Mercy and Truth engulf you, cloak you and keep you in Perfect Peace,
Rachel Gwendolyn (the exceedingly proud granddaughter of a great Patriarch, JEROME WALTERS)

Another Beautiful day in the ATL!

"This is the day the LORD hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it." (Psalm 118:24)  Don't get up dreading this day.  Rejoice!

My grandfather used to joke; "When people git too old to set bad examples, they start giving good advise."  I'm guilty.  I am old and fat now.  I can't wear those halter tops and booty shorts.  I can no longer jump up on the table and dance the night away.

The truth is, I didn't know any better.  I was young and trying to follow the world.  Don't get me wrong.  I certainly enjoyed being young and reckless but there are very few things I would go back and change, if I could.  I was learning.  I was listening and observing.  Life has taught me a lot.

I am so glad I listened to my grandfather, followed his great advice.  The greatest thing he taught me was to think critically.  "Always think for yourself! ... Never do anything that you would be ashamed to admit you did."

If you do something that you are ashamed of, can never admit you did, you're in trouble.  If you can't admit that you did something ,that you know you did, but you don't want any one to know that you were ever that common.  You are going to have to lie.

After you lie and no one believes you , you are going to have to pitch a fit carrying on like a fool to intimidate people into believing you.  Thus, you become despicable.  Ultimately, you will lose a lot of friends and loved ones.  Most of all you will lose "self-respect".

Well, you know people love to talk and they are going to talk about you because your deeds are worthy of conversation.   Your deeds are dirty and delicious and everyone is looking for someone worse off than they are.

If you find yourself to be "common" and you are ashamed.  Hurry up and admit it.  Learn from your mistakes.  What did Jesus do?  He was always healing people then telling them; "Go and sin no more."

We all have to remember that.  You've sinned. I've sinned.  We have all sinned and been found wanting.  We have all made mistakes, probably done something pretty ignorant and repulsive.  When confronted, admit it,  apologize and "go and sin no more."

Stay in His WORD children.  Remember;"Apart from Christ we are nothing."

May GOD's Grace, Mercy and Truth engulf you, cloak you and keep you in Perfect Peace,
Rachel Gwendolyn (the exceedingly proud granddaughter of a great Patriarch, JEROME WALTERS)

Never could have made it

I don't know about you but I know that I never could have made it without the LORD on my side.  Praise the LORD!

Dear LORD when I look back over my life and reflect on where you brought me from, I must Praise you.  I must testify! I must tell the world!

I swoon, I mean I really get weak in the knees.  I am so humbled by the goodness of GOD I can hardly speak.  I am lost for words.  I am truly in awe.

This little black girl that was born unwanted, came into this world unwelcome and seriously hated by her own mother.  This little coco brown baby that had no father in evidence and was thrown away, was rescued by her grandmother Rachel. Praise the LORD!

Yes, I do Praise the LORD,  every day, all day.  Jesus said that if you are ashamed of Him, He will be ashamed of you.  If you are ashamed to let people know you love the LORD, you are already lost.

I am saddened by the fact we can so easily believe closet demons that holler "LAWD! LAWD!", accept their lies as the Gospel truth, yet remain terrified to even look at their fruit.  We repeat stupid statements like; "Touch not my anointed." and permit demons to remain in pulpits fleecing GOD's sheep.

Know that most liars are bullies.  They will scream and holler and pitch a fit and force you to accept a lie as the truth.  When you catch them up to their eyeballs in their deceit they will scream and declare to the entire world that you are a fool. "If dey put yo' brain in a Jay bird's head it wud fly backwards!"

My advise to you, don't let any bully intimidate you.  "Know ye the truth!"  Accept GOD's Truth. If it is too terrifying, too hard to know,  ask GOD to strengthen you.

I just want you to know that GOD is wonderful.  All knowing, all powerful and He will never let any closet demon parading around in clerical garb, calling herself a minister of the Gospel get away with anything.

GOD is revealing His Truth, blessing His children, righting all wrongs and having His way.  Yes, children , Jesus is fixing it!

Stay in His WORD children.  Remember;"Apart from Christ we are nothing."

May GOD's Grace, Mercy and Truth engulf you, cloak you and keep you in Perfect Peace,
Rachel Gwendolyn (the exceedingly proud granddaughter of a great Patriarch, JEROME WALTERS)

Never Would've Made It - Marvin Sapp

"Never Would've Made It" is not just a song, it is the absolute truth.

Never give up on your dream!

I am reminded of Langston Hughes' poem ; "Dream Deferred"  "What happens to a dream deferred?  Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet?  Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.  Or does it explode?"

A ravenous reader from birth, Langston Hughes was one of my favorite writers.  His writing is so honest, so pure.  Honesty is something I've always believed in.  Not for religious reasons. Simply because it is right.

I want to tell every young person to never give up!  If you feel a stirring in your heart, a calling, go for it.  Pursue it.  Please don't let your family, your "loved ones" prevent you from being the person you want to be.

Tune out all negative people.  Tune into the voice of the LORD.  Pray, ask Him how.

If you don't have a dream, get one.  Spend some time alone.  Get to know you.  Don't spend your time comparing yourself to others.  Don't try to copy other people.  Be your unique self.  "Do you!"

Do know that GOD is Awesome! His WORD is Awesome.  His plans for you are Awesome.  Be abundantly blessed today!

Today is truly a beautiful day!

I'm blessed.  I'm smiling.  I'm praising the LORD.  Jesus is "Fixing it".  He is working it out.

I started writing stories at eight years old.  But, unfortunately I was afflicted with a wicked mentally unstable mother that devoted her entire life to attempting to destroy every one she knew,  particularly me.

Every single thing she did to destroy me, to break me has back fired. Praise the LORD!

I won prizes and accolades for my writing and my art.  She destroyed my writing and my art, grinned and laughed in my face; "You can't win fa' duh fix you in.  I can't lose fa' duh stuff I use."  Cleverly and slyly tried to destroy my good name.

I am just as happy today as I can be and I want Martha Jane Walters Hodges Doster Watson Lamoureax to know you didn't stop me.  Yes, you delayed me quite a bit.  Caused me a lot a pain and grief.  But, you haven't stopped me.

If I remember correctly, you started me on the path of writing.  I read your diaries and your Virginia Union creative assignments.  You dumped me on your father often.  He turned out to be my private tutor, better than any Ivy League professor.

I'm grinning from ear to ear today.   Because that little girl, my little girl, the one  you tried to deafen when she was one week old, tried to scald with a hot cup of coffee.  That same 19 month old little girl you beat for peeing in your Cadillac, while you were driving through a car wash, is now the published author you never wanted her to be.

You said she was a fool for attending Boston University and majoring in screen writing.  "Who eva' heard of such!?"; you said.  "She a fool!" ; you said.  "Better major in sumptin' she can git a job in."; you said.  "She a fool moving to L.A., ain't even got no job."; you said.

Well, she is writing, is a member of the Writers Guild.  Writes for a popular television sitcom.

She did it without you.  You will never say you are sorry.  You will never give up your deceit, cunning and cruelty.  You will die an unrepentant liar.  You think you stopped and blocked a lot of blessings.  I hope and pray that one day you will finally realize the only life you successfully ruined was your own.

I'm happy in lovely Atlanta and my daughter is living her dream in lovely L.A.

Stay in His WORD children.  Rest assured; "Jesus will fix it!" Remember;"Apart from Christ we are nothing."

May GOD's Grace, Mercy and Truth engulf you, cloak you and keep you in Perfect Peace,
Rachel Gwendolyn(the exceedingly proud granddaughter of a great Patriarch, JEROME WALTERS)

I am going to tell you again

I am going to tell you one more time.  Evil can not defeat GOD.  Time means nothing to the LORD.  Yes, there are a lot of little imps creeping around priding themselves in their "successful" treachery.  Grinning and congratulating themselves because they truly believe that they got over.

Hogwash!  I just came to tell you that you wasted your time and your life.  Any one still afraid of you, that insists on living in fear of you and claiming their undying love for you, I feel nothing but sorrow for them.

How anyone can forget the one million torturous things you did to them, how you lied and plotted on them and still claim to love you, is beyond my understanding.

I do know if you love a whorish woman it will be at your own peril.  You will be reduced to a crust of bread. Bet!  Cover for her because she made you too ashamed to live, if you want to.  I'm seeking higher ground.  I am not asking her advice or begging her for her "love".

A common woman is just that, common.  Nothing is worse.  A common drunken drug addicted dead beat dad is regarded more highly than a common woman.  Your looks can't make up for your lack of character.  Don't hate me because you can't be trusted.  And don't curse me for having a good memory.

I think if a woman, a so called mother is going to be common, she better have all sons.  That son will never betray his mother no matter what she's done.  I can understand that.  A man doesn't have a maternal instinct. It is too hard for him to believe that she really doesn't love him.  He wants to believe her lies, enjoys her company.  That male instinctively wants to protect his mother.  He can never be convinced that she is in fact unworthy.

Young men, be careful.  Never let some whorish common woman trap you because she is beautiful and cunning.  Don't go near her.  Her lips and words are like honeycombs. You will lose and suffer miserably
for your entire life.

If you were born into the clutches of such a woman, pray.  To GOD be the Glory! Let GOD set you free! Heed His Voice! Shun the presence of evil.