This morning I could not keep my mind stayed on Jesus.
I removed the distraction,
I faced the East from which I've come and I hit play on the pre-recorded readings.
But all the while Jesus was bringing dead Lazarus back to life
I could only be Martha complaining of my strife
Engineering a way to get back at death and yes a way to blame the Lord too.
I'm getting tired of this illness we know as white supremacy and could this illness really be for the glorification of the son of man?
I ask because all the ones who protect this illness from total immunity can't keep your name off their lips.
Christian values this and law and order that,
But don't you come around here reminding us or yourself that you Black.
Nahh, slim. I can't get with that.
That can't be right?
So yeah, like Aunt Martha I distract. I distract.
Concocting how I'm gonna fight this whiteness distraction on Monday.
But for the moment , like Momma Mary I’ll retract and re-track.
Retracing my steps back to God and maybe it will all just end with us, Black us,
worshiping him on this Sunday, attracted to his perfect will that will not return void and with our minds stayed on Jesus, Black loving Jesus.
Theophilus Adoknyplan (“Lover of God who submits to the One True God”) is an unfaithful Lover of God who must actively choose to follow the plan of the Divine daily. The prayer of Theophilus is to grow out of attachment to this world and fully grasp at the realm of God, which was first introduced to the writer through the Black experience and consciousness of the catholic Church.
