Hey! It’s me again, going deeper into the principle of TRUST. Bob Marley is certainly topical today. He wrote, “Man to man is so unjust, you don’t know who to trust. “ I have been growing weary of the “Fake News” phenomena. I love fiction but need my news to be true. At the same time I need balance. This contemplation is about a way to find balance and reconnect to who we truly are. In this moment, I invite you to contemplate on another one of my excerpts from The Dolphy Code. Good News or Bad News He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Psalms 112:7 These days, constantly watching the news makes many people nervous. Two-thirds of the news we hear have unhappy outcomes and we spend a lot of time watching and listening. When I spend a lot of my time listening to this bad news, I begin to expect bad news. I begin to fear life. The fear I experience daily, is a result of me shifting my heart and my attention from you to what is happening in the world around me. Dear God everything requires balance. I choose this moment to shift my expectations of gloom and doom to your wondrous work. When I watch the news, help me to maintain spiritual and emotional balance. I choose to live in faith.
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Hey friends. In our world when trust in governments, school systems, food industries, Big Pharma, family values and friendships are at an all-time low, we need to dig deep into our toolkit of hope to rebuild our confidence in the Divine and ultimately in each other. Today, I would like to share an inspirational thought from The Dolphy Code’s 40-Devotionals section on TRUST. Trust God: A Spiritual Partner And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. --Psalms 9:10 None of us can understand the totality of your character? But this I know: the relationship I have with you is not a passing fantasy, it is a personal, intimate one. We are constantly in communication with each other; I listen to your voice in my heart teaching me how to live honestly, with integrity and with love. Whenever I am facing my Red Sea with no hope of crossing it, I call on you and you are there. When I see with my physical eyes that I do not have enough to feed my family or pay my bills, you show me how to multiply the little I have. Whenever I am experiencing my dark night of soul, I just need to remember that you are always with me. I know you. You are my spiritual partner for life. NEW YORK, NY, May 28, 2017—Sisal Publishing and Story Depot Announce the Release of Andrene Bonner’s latest Book, The Dolphy Code: A Pastor’s Legacy. It is a memoir of Pastor Dolphy L. Morrison’s inspirational life journey and 40 Inspirational bible verses and meditations on principles of trust in God, education, service and unity. Rabbis attended his hospital bedside and his funeral in New York. Who was this Caribbean man from the red hills of St. Ann, Jamaica who had Rabbis as part of his community? One would be quick to say that Bob Marley, Marcus Garvey and Usain Bolt are immediately recognizable Jamaican ambassadors to the global arena. However, from his New York church environs, Pastor Dolphy L. Morrison joins the ambassadorial trio of communicators to cross borders and break down barriers. He welcomed all. Andrene Bonner is making her entrée in the inspirational genre with The Dolphy Code. Named a Motivational Teacher of the Year by the Black Scholars of Westchester, New York, Bonner is an in-demand speaker, Common Core expert and curriculum designer for K-12 through undergraduate learning. Bonner is the founder and president of Literacy Gateway Institute, an educational solution business. She is the award winning author of Olympic Gardens, a story about a young abandoned boy’s search for identity and education. Her full-length musical, Ruby teaches high school students about the Harlem Renaissance. Bonner’s next collaborative with Story Depot is a transatlantic anthology around her praise poem Woman In The Wind, for First Lady of New York City, Chirlane McCray. The book by the same name is set to be released late 2017. Story Depot is a book development, writing and editing service in Washington, DC founded by Faith P. Nelson. ### Dawn Forrester Price's "Run To Freedom" with illustrations by Erin Ennis is a spell-binding coming-of-age novel that will awaken the warrior, the lover, and the magician within every young person and adult who experiences this work. I could not put the book down. Dawn weaves the slave narrative with great care and allows us to see, hear, and feel the complexities of a conquered people through the eyes of a young “man-boy” who dreams only of freedom among the skillful, yet “silent maroons” in the Cockpit Mountains of Jamaica. I have ceremoniously handed the book to my 10 year old granddaughter who has added it to her summer reads—a rite of passage, I would dare say. “Run to Freedom” should be in every classroom in the Caribbean and on the Pan African/Caribbean curricula in every college. Congratulations, Dawn. Reviewer: Andrene Bonner, July 7, 2013 "To write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply."
...Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize Winner, American Primitive" Mangrove
by Andrene Bonner Then the slapping became less predictable, as alcohol and weed coalesce inside his veins, within his shack adorned with symbolic spirituality; he—to pimp a sister with his anti-Babylon rhetoric. Thus darkness of night delays the daybreak and there was nowhere safe for her to hide but for the loaded pistol that kept a constant vigil on the tear drenched pillows beneath her head. A stark reminder that divine love no longer lived between those threads of cotton sheets that once blazed with youthful passions on this paradise island. For to leave would kill the memories of stories sculpted by bare footprints on white sand beaches, under majestic mountains, protected by coconut trees and laughing water lilies; and days of grinding to the hypnotic sounds of Reggae music and bass drums that induced the libido to violence. For he too had crossed over on the dark side of death, where tyrants refute the black woman’s immortality. A Woman of Power and Vigilance
A woman of power and vigilance, so strong and mighty Oh! The admiration I hold for her is too strong, too sweet and too profound for me to even put in words She’s the type that’s inured to the criticisms of society and the pharisaical backstabbers who only smile in her face to try to get close to her heart. She is a go getter, a fighter a woman who stands up for her rights and Uh. Yeah she knows how to play the game It’s like everyday she’s living that sweet sixteen Her confidence level is spiked up to an infinite number, but I guess that’s okay because numbers are unending anyway Man, she got spunk! Girl knows how to make an entrance, I’ll say. When she moves you got to either get out of the way or strut to the walk like how she does. Her charisma is unexplainable; it’s popping in sporadic proportions. Oh, she got that hypnotic flow; her moves seem slow but if you blink you won’t see her go, cause she’s a woman of action. She can’t stand still, the mind she holds never rests within. Ooh ooh I got one--Drama Queen and we love her for it. If you know her you’d see and comprehend that the way she seems is really who she is. She can’t live the life of a charlatan. Her theatrics won’t allow her to. She might end up talking on herself because honestly—honesty is her best policy. And you can’t blame her. She’s a wonderful mother to any child who gives her permission to hold them in her arms, and boy if you’ve been there you’d have known how gracious it felt. Yes, she’s unique and a bit eccentric at times but she’s still one of the most respectable and most talented woman out there you’ll ever meet in this lifetime or the one to come about. ---Georgiienne Edie, Poets Orators Writers Artist Society Member When Nelson Mandela smiles--Barack Obama smiles. It takes strength of character, supreme self confidence, humility, and above all, love for humanity to smile amidst the quagmire of vitriol and conjectures of doubt about the black person's ability to lead and take agency of his or her destiny." (Andrene Bonner 1-21-2013 - Inauguration Day). |
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