What If

The age old question, what if? This question is asked millions of times a day. Everyone no matter the age, sex, or race ask this question. What if I had looked left instead of right? What if I had told her this instead of that? What if I had said yes to that job? What if, might be the single most asked question on the planet.

I am of the opinion that the “what if” question depending upon your age, is a tool used to keep doubt in ones mind. What if has gotten a lot of people in trouble. Never being satisfied is good in some areas of your life but may not be so good in others. What if I called my Shorty tonight while the wife is out and see if we can hook up? What if I robbed that fool and came up? What if God doesn’t forgive me?

How many times have you asked the question what if? Why are you asking that question at this point in your life? If you are a young man just getting started what if can be a self correcting tool utilized to improve upon your situation. If you are an older man, what if may be your way of trying to see if the grass is greener on the other side. It may allude to the beginnings of a mid life crises. What if can set you free or ruin everything. Ultimately what if is a choice, a decision, not an afterthought. What if should be something that is planned for ahead of time, not reacted to or a happenstance. Too many times we miss out for not planning for the “what if’s” when, had we only taken a moment to discern the Will, what If, would not be a part of our vernacular.

Take a moment if you will to think about the challenges you face in life, the burdens you bear, the people you love and respect. Take a moment to fathom the possibilities of life and the ramifications of what your “what if” question represents. Does it represent the strategic reset button of your life? Or, does it represent the destruct button of your life? While all of that is on your mind, let me give you a sneak peek, a clue if you will, as to the answer of this question. Come closer, be very, very, quiet, I am only going to share this with you, shhhhhhhh. (Whisper) If you are operating in God’s will, you have hit the reset button, outside of God’s will…… BOOM!! Self destruction!

What if God didn’t exist?

Unfathomable!!!!!!!!!!!

What IF

What if..........a question posed of uncertainty, a plea for clarity and truth
What if..........the world was flat instead of round
What if..........we were our brother's keeper
What if..........my lips were more pronounced instead of unseen and lack the fluff for adorning glamour
What if..........my eye lashes were long and curled upward without my having to purchase my winks
What if..........my hips were mounds of perfections so my buttocks is an art for sculptures and wondering eyes
What if..........my teeth were the models orthodontist used to make his patterned plates
What if..........I no longer had any teeth would I be more willing to smile
What if..........one day we awakened blind would the joy of living contain our living
What if..........french nails never existed, would we be any less a woman
What if..........curling, frying, banana peeling, corn rows and straightening our hair was never a trend
What if..........body oils, fragrant perfumes, lip gloss and shoes thought sexy never became an idea
What if..........the title of "Dead Beat" dad's only meant that at the end of their work day, dad's were dead beat tired
What if..........a family rarely had to deal with an absentee parent
What if..........a child came home from school to 2 loving and caring parents, what that does for his order in life
What if..........a dad made sure his time was equally divided with household and family matters
What if .........dad's were taught to love and nurture and passed that along to the loved ones
What if..........men could be happy with themselves rather than adorn themselves in gold, piercing's, tattoo's and alluring images and profiles to attract
What if .........men kept their boxer's under wear with a pair of men's cotton brief under wear on top of each other with pant's sagging unless slowing the vapor quantity
What if.........saggin was because our modern day men has had an abnormal testicle growth pattern that the pant companies haven't discovered they need to extend the inseam for a better fit
What if.........filing women's toe nails even was as simple and wearing open toed shoes that allow you toes to drag the pavement
What if.........a thong couldn't shield dress slacks from a mishap after digesting a colon cleanse capsule after a cough
What if..........the souls of the feet only walked the earth and stomped mud and adobe to construct a place to live
What if..........our hands were calloused and cracked from labor without tools
What if..........lips never came into contact with the opposite sex
What if..........underwear remained non-existence and we loitered naked in the forest or covered with leafs and vine bindings
What if..........we knew nothing of sex or is carnal knowledge what drives desires for pro-creation
What if..........the human touch is so emotionally overwhelming that without it we are disconnected to purpose
What if..........the first growth symptoms of pregnancy were never known as the body grew and the baby began to move
What if..........education was learning the ways of survival in a world and villages of hunter's and gatherer's
What if..........the educational bench marks and standards were to know your social environment and live for one another
What if .........in that world remedies for health care were roots, leaves and plants for healing at the cost of bartering
What if..........in the beginning God did not create the Heaven and Earth
What if..........Darwin's Theory of evolution is the truth and the light
What if..........Adam and Eve was a fabricated story for consequences for disobedience and shame
What if..........Adam relinquished his rib to make woman so he too would have a procreating partner to do the begot thing
What if..........the begot thing is of incestuous relations, does that make us all family under the Patriarch of Adam
What if..........we were all cousins, if so, are the wars, beliefs and differing ideologies what allows for bloodshed and violence
What if..........the only light in existence was the sun, moon and fire
What if..........the only light for the world today was seeking truth and asking, "why are we here"
What if..........in our hearts, soul and spirit we feel and believe that there is a force greater than our own intelligence in charge
What if..........listening to our own voices and ego gives greater advantages for reaching our life's destination to a death of darkness or for everlasting life
What if..........there were no animals, no fish, no fowl of the air, no insects, no reptiles, no mammals and no bodies of water
What if..........Darwin's evolution theory didn't pose the cosmic and heavenly body study of life being borne of what origin to man walking upright, if Adam was first born
What if truth and self purpose was every man's journey and baton to pass along for procuring the sought after top rung on the self esteem ladder for acquiring an identity of Self Actualization and how humans fit into an environment of hypocrisy, schizophrenia, betrayal and violence for co-existence
What if......... the word, LOVE, really meant God's favor
What if......... the word, friend, was a special term that rang true
What if..........thou shall not kill had meaning, would we do unto other's as they would to unto us
What if..........jealousy was just a word we learned to spell, but unlike a verb, had no action, but more understanding
What if..........the actions of governing bodies were equal, would we know and embrace it
What if..........the elite ruled the common folk, is that a more perfect union, capitalistic and democratic democracy or ideology
What if..........a government and a population of tyrannical leadership reigned supreme on the helpless and make slaves of their being powerless by controlling the laws and regulations of the land,,,,, is that liberty and justice, for whom
What if.........babies didn't cry
What if.........humans wouldn't die
What if ........there was no open place to pray, would there be the opportunity to say; I Love my creator
What if.........God Loves Us and is our Sheppard, whom will we fear
What if.........What if, was just a question or platform for us to educate and continue to research the many questions of life.
What if.........any of these thoughts ever crossed your minds
What if.........the "what if" question never ends

What if?

Geronzo
11/12/2010
2:45 pm

Ordered Society

I look over the precipice at iniquity and witness the continuous downward spiral of humankind. With so much going on, one wonders why we should even exist. With morality’s degradation ever abundant what hope can one have? We live in a society today that has lost what it means to be a community. Often times we look around for what is best for me, trying to elevate our own status forsaking the greater good. There is something innately wrong with the all about me syndrome. I can remember a time when the community took care of their children, a time when your neighbor was a surrogate parent.

Today what we find is everyone is for himself or herself, I got to get mine and the heck with everyone else. We are truly becoming a society of only the strong can survive. If we are truly that, a society where only the strong survives, then what happens to the weak? Are they simply castigated, or eliminated? How does man fulfill its destiny if there is no one to help, no one to show compassion, no ones spirit to lift? Where does this feeling of superiority lead us? I would argue it leads to citizens being sold to foreigners, people being tattooed with numbers, others being marshaled to gas chambers, the best of what we have to offer being crucified.

How can man justify its cruelty, justify its lack of reverence for life? Let’s just put humankind on time out. Go to your corner and stand their for ten minutes and don’t you come out until you can follow the rules! That works for our children does it not. 1 2 …. What did I tell you to do? 3. Great results. I only had to scream at you a hundred times between 2 and 3. So how do we impair morality’s decline? Let us start first with, “God is grace, God is good, let us thank you for our food. Amen”. Then we can move to, “now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. God Bless mommy, daddy,”… Prayer is the only way we can get society in order. “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord” Psalm’s 37:23.

The only true way to become an Ordered Society is to become the men and women God has ordained us to be. Will you come?

A Man's Role

I lay awake at night pondering if I have done all I could on this day for my family. Did I participate in the day-to-day activities of my family’s life or have I been home but not present. Being daddy is one of the great opportunities a man has; it is also one that many of us fail miserably. What is a man's role? I believe a man’s role is one that is difficult to define. Difficult to define, because many young men have not witnessed what it means to be a man or better yet what role one should play.

As far back as we can remember, we were told to get as much as we can get, have as many as we can hold onto. However, is that our role? Is that what a man is? I have come to the realization that a man’s role is a demonstrative role. Children emulate what they see. If that young child is raised, in a home, that daddy is beating mommy and mommy stays around, that child can grow up believing that is to be expected between a mommy and a daddy. We as men must believe that whatever we do is scrutinized by the people that look up to us. Every act we take in front of our baby girl must be looked at as an opportunity to be a model for her the type of man she should be with. Believe it or not, the first man in your little girl’s life is you as her father, from there it either gets better or God forbid worse. If that little girl sees that her mother is treated well, with respect and reverence, that is what she will expect because that is the model she has lived in.

On the other hand, when it comes to being a Man for that young boy in your life, while it probably should not be different in your eyes, it is. We have to resist the temptation of re-living our lives through the young men we are modeling for. We all try to get our boys to do the things we did in athletics, or academics, or whatever we thought we did the best, and I believe we should at least make them try, but our job is not to impose our will and make mini me’s but to give borders and room to grow within those borders. Some might say how is that not imposing your will, they have to do what I say? That may be true in a lot of cases but does it have to be. I believe a man’s role is to provide, protect and to educate the people they love and are responsible for.

What do you mean educate the people you love? What can you teach me? When you are the man God has ordained you to be, every interaction that is witnessed is an opportunity to teach, to educate. For example, you were just cursed out by someone and you did not respond in kind. Whomever bared witness to that was shown how to handle that situation. When you show someone compassion that is a lesson we should all want to teach. When you demonstrate what it is to be a man, the responsibility, the long-suffering, the opportunity to bare the burdens of the family and successfully navigate through them. The opportunity to be looked upon as someone who did everything he could to move his family forward. The opportunities to have your children think of you as a Man who happens to be their father, I do not think you can be a good father if you are not first a man. The opportunity to look into the eyes of your wife and see that she believes you are a man. Allows you to avoid sleepless nights, wondering what your children are doing, hoping you have done everything possible. If you have done everything a man is supposed to do, you are honoring your role.

A man’s role.