GOT FREE WILL? Then why aren't you using it?

     I've often heard the question asked "Why does God allow bad things to happen to us? Or where was HE when this happened? Or if there is a God, why isn't HE saving us now?

     The answer is simple. HE created us with FREE WILL.  That means HE gives us choices and HE respects our choices. By respecting us HE complies with our decisions regardless of what it is.
   
FREE WILL is our SOVEREIGN RIGHT.

     The ones who have tampered with this are our fellow human beings. Our co-inhibitors of Mother Earth, have tried to Lord or rule over us in a superior fashion, however they could not do this unless we gave them the power.

     You may ask "what power is that"? Our FREE WILL.

     You may say, "I didn't and would never give anyone my freedom of thinking & doing for myself".

     Well, let me ask you this? The job/career you work today, are you there because it was always your desire to have that position? Was this what you dreamed you would be doing when you were younger? Or when you finished school, is this the job/career you envisioned? Or are you there because it helps you make your ends meet?

     Okay. So you may still say that you didn't give up your FREE WILL.  So, let me ask you this? When was the last time you went on a trip or vacation that was not based on the amount of money you have or saved up? And how about the food you eat everyday? Are you eating the foods you want to or what you can afford to eat? Are you choosing the same food you would if all the food in the world was free?

     The home you live in, is that what you always dreamed of? If money did not limit you would this still be the home of your choice? Or would you move somewhere else?

     If the answer to any of these questions is "I wouldn't change a thing" then I commend you, you have NOT given away your power.  However, if you have answered differently, then the time to take back your power is now.  Not tomorrow, not when things get better financially, or any other excuse you can make.  Start today. Start by writing down or remembering your dreams about life without restrictions, without the limits of money or anything in your life that stopped you from dreaming.  You know what or who they are.

Quitting the Oppressive Plantation - Wal-Mart

So I finally did it!!! I quit Wal-Mart. And really I'm not knocking the fact that WalMart has helped me feed my children, put a roof over our heads, etc.  However, the work conditions there like so many other corporations is similar to that of a Plantation.

And they said slavery was dead!!! No it actually is not.  It just got a facelift.  Instead of working on the plantation you work in corporate america.  The slave-owner is your job whether it be Target, Wal-Mart, Chevron, Exxon, Apple, Ford Motors, AT&T, or Oprah Winfrey herself, etc. (for a complete list http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2013/full_list/) the point is, you will never own it, even when you buy stock, you have no say so, it's no different than the plantations of old.

The house-niggas are the management teams.  They have no mind of their own, they are just puppets.  And mind you I'm referring to the majority.  The ones who try to be fair or try to follow policy which are supposed to protect the people, are either ignored, dis-empowered, or made into field hands.  They give you a little more money than the field hands and you think you're make a difference.  But in essence what they did was give you hush money, see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, especially when they crack the whip on the field hands back by demanding "work faster, work harder, same production level" even though they "hung" (fired) some folk for the same pay.

So why did I wait till now to finally say what was on my heart for the six years that I was there.  It's simple. FEAR. Worrying about whether I would get another job, be able to pay my bills, etc.  But isn't that just how the field hands felt? Fearful. You think the slave-owners felt that? Only if there was an uprising. But they had so many different tactics and ways to "keep you in your place".  Only they were allowed to enjoy the "fruits of your labor".

We just allowed FEAR, to keep us from following our dreams.  And once again I am only speaking to those who were like me who felt trapped.  "Leave master and you may get lynched or blackballed", you know what I mean.  So many of us regardless of the color of our skins played a role, some were Kunta Kinte, Kizzy, Chicken George, Binta, or Toby.  It didn't matter what plantation you went to they would still get you. Sure the higher you went up, the easier it seemed but it always comes at a price.  Maybe you have less of a social life or less family time, or you have to compromise your integrity.

Eventually, you take on the attitude, "if I can just make it till retirement" and by this time the best part of your life is gone.  And those of us who lost all zeal of life will declare like Celie "this life soon be over.... Heaven last always".