CHANGE STARTS HERE!

Change has been central to my existence, since I can remember. I am clear that the same is true for each of us. Whether we are activators or bi-products of that change is perhaps a choice.

Born in Mississippi, very early and instinctively, I knew that positive change would not come for me, an African American child born in the 60’s, unless I dared to be a change agent. So, in my own ways, I’ve advocated for transformative difference, change, inherently knowing that progress has its price, but it is a necessary down payment for a hopeful and egalitarian tomorrow.

Theologically educated, and denominationally unfulfilled, I tremendously respect but tend not to focus intently on religiosity, but rather spirituality, as I have observed that Spirit is present and vested in each living thing and every human condition. Painfully, religiosity, in my experience, is not.

Despite my theological and philosophical undergirdings and deep familiarity with adjustments, transitions, and revisions in life, the change of the present day is gripping me in unsettling and disconcerting ways; and then I look around and see others caught up in a whirlwind of life-bending and disheartening dilemmas and requisites. Change. Change, so that they can be back together again with those they miss. Change, so they can have life as they once enjoyed it. Change, so they can get their jobs back…