He who walks in the shadows is definitely trying to avoid the light, for the wise humble man walks with his head bowed to the ground.
Not in shame nor weakness, but in honor of others, gratitude for life, and in salute to God, and the best way to describe myself is that I’m Superman in the sunshine and Batman after dark and either way I’m here to help someone in my community and on my planet.
I’m a minister who doesn’t scream, shout or do those masterful and monstrous moans and groans.
I’m a preacher who’s positively poor in the pockets and definitely powerful in prayer. A priest who doesn’t speak of punishment but teaches of a Heavenly father who loves you unconditionally and of an Earthly planet full of lost and broken people who definitely needs Him
My life goals are to do great deeds while lessening the suffering of others. Reminiscing about the good old days that turned out to be fond memories full of blessings, and simple pleasures are like rediscovering a cool breeze on a super-hot summer day, a second serving of Blue Bell Homemade Ice Cream drowning in Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup, homemade banana pudding and a big burger from Betty’s Place double dipped and baptized in BBQ sauce with cheese and slaw.
Recalling a fond memory is like sharing a miracle.
For this week’s column here’s another true detailed story of courage in a time of peril. So buckle up and prepare to ascend beyond the confines of your mind and see a great big world through a little boy’s eyes.
It’s 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning and a 13-year-old clever curly-haired boy with cowlicks is preparing for Saturday morning cartoons and a bowl of Lucky Charms.
However unlike any other Saturday morning, my mom, the legendary late childhood development specialist Marva-Dillon-Jones is up and painfully upset because of a premonition dream.
If anyone reading this knows my family, they are aware that we have clairaudient experiences which resonates with a futuristic event yet to happen. You see my mom and I have a psychic rapport with each other. It’s the invisible umbilical cord that no surgeon, nor surgical instrument can cut or tear apart.
This may sound ridiculous speaking from experience, but it has taken over a lifetime to learn to live with it. Years ago people like us were called oracles and prophets but because of the emergence of Christianity, religious people have taken those titles for only Christian use.
I have a condition, a unique sensory system that allows me to receive and transmit both vibratory information and spiritual frequencies which causes me to seem strange as well as seem to be the genius that everyone thinks that I am.
However, on this particular morning my mom gathered my brothers, sisters and me and told us that in her dream she saw one of us taking a long fall down into a large mass of water.
She then turned to me and said that it was me and I was drowning and for each one of us to stay away from large ditches and be careful.
Being rebellious, I grumpily said “Why do I have to be the one in the dream?”
Her response was for me to be careful. However, my good friend, raised like a brother Johnathan Frieson and I are planning to jump off the big board at the city pool on Roosevelt Street.
Jonathan didn’t know that the guy who did flips off houses was actually afraid of jumping off the big board in 10 feet of water.
So we both headed up the big board for our first dive. Being a thinking person, I had devised a plan than I would jump as close as possible to the latter so I could look like I was a pro.
However, diving and actually gliding across the pool for about seven seconds my head hit Johnathan climbing up the latter, causing me to knock myself out and descend back into the dark depths of the 10 feet.
Thinking that my life was over as well as reflecting on my mother’s ominous warning, I looked up and saw two extraordinary torpedo-like splashes shooting toward me.
It was Earl “Chico” Landfair and Otha Campbell to the rescue.
Today I’m forever grateful to both these real-life superheroes and will be forever hold a place for them in my heart. I hope you both enjoy this…
