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God is speaking. Are you listening. He has a billion ways to get our attention. Mine came in the form of a rather rough fall which led me to the ER with a knee effusion. So out of work for almost a week landed me on my back saying, “Lord why did you forsake me?” Has this ever happened to you? Like a bicycle sitting inverted in a laundrymat, operable, but not in use. God is using a cow, a bell, and of all things, the wind, to get our attention and our focus turned back to him. When life vaccums us into its twists and turns, we must remember that we belong to Him and He gets the first of everything. God knows the very hairs that are on your head, trust me, He knows when you need to be where you need to be and when.

So this morning, about 2 am, God showed me this vision and said, “Religion has gotten many folk by the neck-serving me because the good book says to, Fear is ckoking the life out of many causing them to love me out of obligation with conditions, Ignorance is causing a generation to become insane thinking they can actually carve their names on a hill equivalent to Hollywood, and become stars in their own strength. I am God and its gonna take some straight violence and perseverance to take this world by force.”

Insanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result.Accepting this truth and the course that it has taken in our lives, let’s get out of the rut of insanity and strive to perservere!For in steady persistence, we’re on a course of action in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement!

Peace & Blessings to all,

Danita Ogandaga, MSW

Shopping causes you to walk past the windows mouth watering watching the latest fashion on a plastic mold of a man or woman wondering how is this gonna look on me. Driving in your Pontiac or Corolla passed at the light by the new version of the BMW-X5 salivating how you’d look behind the wheel minute by minute replays in your mind of trumping the driver so you can get under that wheel and v room…..v room…….

In a world of security, in these great United States and Nation of We, religion reigns high, creating causes for us to have mediocre relationships with ourselves while we wine and dine the relationships with others, not liking ourselves, wishing we lived in another’s neighborhood, driving another’s car, loving another’s lover, reveling in reality TV while conjuring up a pseudo-lifestyle for you–to star in your own reality show….”Keeping up with (insert your name here)”.

Strongholds block our memories and cause us to dwell in an eternal state of false reverence that to like and to love ourselves is anti-loving God-after all God is meek and lowly and if he gave you a gift–you don’t have to flaunt it—instead we adopt cover-up and self-hatred strategies and coveting tactics to cover-up how we really feel–impressing Mike with that new dress when you’ve got .50 in the bank or the extreme…taking Molly to McDonald’s when you wanna take her to Sun Dial ( testing her to see if she can handle being with you because you loaded but don’t like yourself). We can get lost into spiraling into a space where we may not feel worthy of success or looking into the future because our present is filled with such inconsistencies—-lay-offs, abuse, fragile relationships, layers of fat, etc.