Yes We Can!
It’s been more than a minute since I posted an entry. Wrapped up a manuscript. Went to the DNC Convention (more on that later). Shipped my daughter (Katie) off to Brown University. Started working on a documentary. In between all of that, I found time to volunteer for my friend Kasim’s campaign for Atlanta mayor. Kasim Reed. Remember that name. One would wonder, how I find the time (or the energy) for such pursuits. But such is my life.
Anything less and I’d just lay down and die.
So anyway, it’s Friday night. What am I doing? Not a lot of anything. As my friend Cornelius says… “It’s the Art of Doing S@#@!” Sometimes that’s a good thing. What should I be doing? Well, between sips of wine and a glorious pizza on its way to my door, I should be writing.
There’s a story brewing in my head. I’ve fallen in love with a new character. Kenya Robinson is her name. And this time I want love to win. If you’ve read my first two novels (or gotten a peek at the third manuscript), you know that I am a big fan of love. For my characters– as has been the case with me– it’s an elusive notion. I guess they say the best fiction is non-fiction.
But I still believe.
I have to.
Love truly does make the world go ’round. It inspires. It lifts. It plants. It nutures. It’s the basis of everything that is good and decent in the world. There’s just too little of it. Not that there’s not enough to go around. We just don’t spend enough time doing it. Loving each other, meeting one another at our mutual point of need. Not to believe, is not to believe in life itself.
So this time, my story (the novel) will be different. At least I think so. One never knows how a story will turn out until you start writing. (Have I mentioned that I haven’t started yet!).
This one is titled “The Lives of Others.” It could be titled “Love.” But you get the point, I hope.
Okay, so back to the DNC. What an incredible thing. For the rest of my life, I will be able to look back and say that I say Barack Obama accept the nomination in person. It was a thrilling event. And some day, in some way, I will write about it. I simply haven’t digested the meaning just yet. I expect the world to change if Obama is elected. I just don’t know how. For the better, I’m sure.
But something else happened on my trip to Denver. I witnessed (again) the love of Barack and Michelle Obama. It’s that unstoppable, unflappable kind of love. The kind that does not waver with the tides. A true partnership of souls. How do I know? One look at them together tells the story. Their story caused me to look at my own. Suddenly, I wanted something greater than I’d ever known. And through them, I saw it possible.
As I boarded the plan home, I told myself that I would have it. Either I would find it or it would find me. I would let it find me.
I do not yet know his name (or maybe I do), but I am sure it should be Love.
Hi, Goldie. I thoroughly enjoyed your article “A woman’s Worth” I am not settled on a candidate because of certain beliefs I have. Murdering millions of babies by abortion each year is not what God planned for us. I am a mother of 5 ages 15 to 10months and I am single/separated. I love my children even in the hard times as you so wonderfully described your experience.
We prosecute murderers but not women, men, and girls and boys for abortions. Why? I will not judge them because I do not know the depth of each pain, but we are not God. Murder in his eyes is murder. From what I’ve read and heard Barak does not believe life starts at conception. God told Jeremiah that he knew him before he was conceived. He does however believe a persons “right to choose” to either murder or save there innocent child. This choice does not include the baby or what God wants. “Pro-life” in a developed country should not be a bad term. We are not animals but we are humans whose parents did not murder us. I don’t know your position on abortion. I assume you do not believe in it because you were blessed even in hard times to raise three wonderful children. You described in your article how you cried tears of joy when you turned 40. What if your mother did not keep you but instead for whatever reason aborted you?, I would not have the privilege of reading your article and writing to you. You would not be able to do what you love. Many times abortion is used as a birth control or a way out of a painful break up or sexual encounter. God hates it! You mentioned that you were a Christian (which means Christ like or ways like Christ). Many of us use that term loosely. When in sin or out of God’s will, I would use Christian loosely too.
Why should we question or even debate if a baby is worth living or dying? It is painful and damaging to the mother and the child and her future children if any that she deciides to keep. I sure you know that abortion has been linked to breast cancer, depression, sterility, and other mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical problems. God has forgiveness for the sincere. He is a healer!
I am not the judge of any but am an advocate for the murdered children and their mothers and fathers.
Barak’s book the Audacity of Hope does not speak to the murdered child of an abortion. Their hope was taken before they even started ,or for some ,days or weeks before they were born and breathed their first breath!
I want to vote for Obama, but abortion is what is making me undecided. As Christians we really have to weigh in on those issues. I am asking God to help me with this critical decision. It so important. There are so many issues that are important not just for us today but our children and future generations.
I am pleased to see SOME CHANGE in economics, academics, foriegn affairs, employment and so on with a new president in Barak Obama, but I am afraid that more babies will “legally” be murdered.
God is not mocked whatsoever a person or country, sows that person or country will also reap.
I would really appreciate your response or comment.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Monique
Serious food for thought but speaks for a lot of pro-life persons in this world but however, if there is always be a means for the alternative for women and while they will continue find themselves in tragic situations, etc. then they just might be tempted or have been to take this alternative way. I would like to pass judgement on what other women do less I find myself in judgement. Maybe we mean to ban abortions and make them illegal? Would Congress support such a bill? How much would it take to do that?
How hard it must be for the mothers like “Saving Private Ryan” bring their precious children in this world only to see them perish in a war they did not want? Devastated! But I am however undecided on the pro-life versus the abortion issues. The countless women who have taken or is thinking about the alternative to pro-life will personally have themselves to answer to God. Like the Bible says every man must seek his own salvation, so whatever they sow so shall they reap; whether it’s for the bad or for the good. We have choices in life, let’s make it for the best and for the betterment of ourselves and for those after us. The battle is not yours……it’s the Lord’s. Peace be with you.