Chapter Chaplain's Corner
Presented by
Bro. Christopher Curry, District Chaplain
Genesis 9:17, 20 & 21
And God said
unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established
between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. (20) And Noah began to
be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: (21) And he drank of the
wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
It’s Not A
Time… To Be Drunk!
In 1963… 47 Years
Ago… Dr. King Spoke Of A Vision… That Dealt With A Country And A
People… Where Color Would Not Be The Determining Factor… For Their:…
Servitude… Class… Or Creed… He Saw This Nation And People… As A
United Front… Where The Pettiness Of The Elite… Would Dissipate The
Oppression Of The Rejected… And Those Who Were Rejected… Would Rise
To Become:… The Trend Setters… The Torch Bears… And The Trailblazers… Of
This Newly Formed Society!
In Other Words…
It Was Dr. King’s Dream… That One Day: After Losing More Of His
People In The Atlantic Ocean… Then The Jews Lost In Their Holocaust!...
After Surviving Through 244 Years Of Slavery!... Struggling Through 100
Years Of Jim Crow Laws!... After Making It Through 30 Years Of
Segregation!... After Matriculating Through A Life-Time of Racism And
Second Class Citizenship!... After The Frustrations Of Walking In The
Rain… Crying In The Middle Of The Night… Fleeing From Bomb Threats… AND…
Experiencing Unleashed Fire Hydrant And Dogs;… That Those Who Were
Apart Of His Succeeding Generations… Would Be: Prepared, Selected
And Chosen To Manifest In The Natural, What God Had Intended For Them In
The Spiritual!
It Is Suppose To Be This
Generation, Who Would Literally Change The World: Be Better Education,
Seize Great Opportunities And Make Greater Things Happen; But
Immediately After God Gave Us Our First Sign… In The Form Of
President Barak Obama, It Appears That We Voted, Celebrated His
Election, Sat-Down, And Got Drunk!
But My Brothers…
This Is The Wrong Time… To Be Drunk! Because Being Drunk At This
Time… Is Both:… An INJUSTICE And A DISGRACE!
I Will Agree
That This Is An Exciting Time For, Not Only African Americans,
But For America As A Whole! But If You Think, By Just Getting
Someone Elected Is The End All, Be All And The Answer
To All Of Our Problems… You’re Drunk!
- If You Think That You’ve
Done Everything You Needed To Do, By Registering To Vote And
Getting Obama In Office… You’re Drunk!
- If You Think That Now That You’ve Got Your
Pictures, Cups And All of Your Obama Material, And Can Say That We
Did It, And Go Back To Business As Usual… You’re Drunk!
- If
You Think… That You Can Go Back To Being Apathetic And
Lethargic; And Thinking That Somebody Is Going To Give You Something…
You’re Drunk!
You May Be
Wondering… Where Am I Going With This… As I Sit And Watch
What’s Happening To Our Young People, I Have Become Very Convinced That
We Are Drunk Off Of The Foolishness Of Deception! Because Racism Still
Exist, But The Legacy Of Dr. King Stands To Remind Us That Our View Of
Racism Must Change. Because We Can No Longer Play The Role Of A
Victim In Racism, When We Have Been Given A Victimized Champion!
So Allow Me To
Offer You 3 Sobering Pills… That Will Naturalize The Poison Of
Drunken… That Have Been Injected Into This Generation!
Pill #1… Reject
The Perceived Notion… That You Are Worthless
Dr. King Said,… “That The Fiber Of A Person Is Not Determined During The
Time Of Their Comfort But During The Times Of Their Controversy!”…
Regardless Of The Controversial Comments And Innuendos That You Have
Heard Or Read On ABC, CBS, NBC Or CNN… This Generation Is Destined For
Greatness!... People Say That This Generation Is The Lost Generation. I
Disagree, Because Unlike Other Generations, This Generation Was Left
Behind! The Very Same People Who Attempt To Inject This Poison Of
Negativity Into This Generation, Are The Very Same Demonical Demented
Individuals Who Forgot About The African Proverb That Says… “It Takes A
Whole Village To Raise One Child.”
If You Watch…
What The Media Is Saying About This Generation… You Can Easily Come
To The Conclusion… That The Only Thing That They Do Is Spend Their
Time:
Dropping And Copping-Out
Taking Pills Just for
Thrills
Smoking Dope Because
You’ve Lost Hope
Laid Back And Selling
Crack
Illing And Chilling
Being Cool… While Missing
School
Acting Like Fools… While
Disobeying… All The Rules
This Is Why…
It’s Not The time… To be Drunk!... Because If You Are Drunk… You Will
Miss-out On the Promise That God Has Destined For His People!
Pill #2... Never
Forget About The Struggle
Every-Time You Step
And Make Any Form Of Accomplishment In Life, Know That You Are Standing
On The Shoulders Of All Other Brothers And Sisters, Who Fought Hard To
Make Your Life Free In America… And Dr. King Was Adamant About This Pill
When He Said, “The Only Thing Evil Needs To Win… Is For Good People
To Say Or Do NOTHING!”
But It Goes A Little Deeper Than
That, While Standing On Someone Else’s Shoulders You Have To
Respect The Fact That It Was Blood, Sweat, Tears And Prayers That Gave
You The Opportunity To Be Where You Are Today!... It’s Not By Chance Or
Luck That You Are Sitting And Even Reading This Message… Somebody Died
For This Right! So When You Walk And Talk, Hold Your Head High, Stick
Your Chest Out, And Make Your For-Parents Proud Of Her Exceeding
Generations.
Always Remember… That Your
Fore-Parents Were: Stolen From Africa; Loader Into Ships Like Rats;
Drowned In The Atlantic Ocean; Sold-Out By Our Own People; Subjected To
Task Masters Who Hated Them: Beaten And Lynched; Forced To Change Their
Names, Culture, And Language; Raped And Robbed Of Their Culture; Denied
The Right To Vote; Taunted And Torched; And Abused And Misused… But
The Good News Is… God Has Always Been Faithful… To The
Rejected… Meaning… No Matter What Was Done To Us, We
Knew That: That Soon We Would Be Done With The Trouble Of This
World; That We Were Going To Lay Down Our Burdens Down By The Riverside;
And That We Would Manifest Like DIRT…In Other Words… We Could be: Spat
On, Stumped And Mistreat… But At The End Of The Day… We Would
Still It Would Rise!
Finally… Pill #3…
Be Connected With Our Creator
Isaiah 43 “Fear Not For I
Have Redeemed You… I have Called You By Your Name,… And When You Pass
Through The WATERS,… I Will Be With You… When You Pass Through The
RIVERS,… They Will Not Sweep Over You… When You Walk Through The FIRE,…
You Will Not Be Burt”… Which Means, Our God Never Sleeps Nor
Slumber; That Our God Will Not Sufferer Our Foot To Be Moved; That Our
God Will Always Flip… The Enemy’s Script; That Our God Works Everything
Together For Our Good; And That No Weapon Formed Against You Will
Prosper!
So Lift-Up Your Head And Be Lifted
Up, Because God Is On Our Side And We Will Reach The Point Of Our
Greatness, Only If We Remain Sober To The Realities Of This Unrealistic
Society That We Live In.
This Is Exactly Why… It’s No Time
To Be Drunk!