Monday, November 06, 2006

Da Word... 166!


Good Afternoon!

Today is nice and warm yo!  Low 50s, I was almost sweating.  Compared to the low 30s it was a couple days ago, todays weather is like that of a tropical island, heh heh.  NICE blue sky with a few small scattered clouds and a magnificent sun.  Not to mention all the different colors adorning the trees that have not yet shed all their leaves.  Dope yo. Aight, on to... da Word!

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
- Proverbs 11:4

Oh yeah!  Da proverbs are BACK potna!  This one is hot too, uh huh!  Wealth is like, the bomb diggity in this country, and in many countries.  But especially in a capitalistic society, the pursuit of wealth is like whoa....  It's basically the ultimate goal: amass a lot of wealth and live la vida king.  I mean, with wealth you can get anything you want right?  With wealth nothing is out of reach.... right?  Well, nothing except the things you can't buy with money, life and love just to name a couple.  It's interesting how da word is in direct opposition to human and/or conventional wisdom.  Here, Pops is saying that righteousness is the ultimate goal, cuz when it comes down to it, it is righteousness that will save a brutha's and a sista's soul.

It's a change in perspective potnas!  And it's waaaaaaay practical.  I mean fa real, what worth will wealth have the day Pops comes to call?  The day when all things material will be extinguished pretty much.  What will matter then?  How much wealth you have amassed?  Or how much love you have poured out onto your fellow man and woman?  Matter of fact, what kind of person would you become even now if you neglected your fellow peeps just to amass wealth?  Yeah you'd have wealth, but your life would be a sorry and pathetic one because you will have no real people in it.  But you def would be surrounded by peeps who would betray you in a second if you ever lost your wealth. So, is this saying that the pursuit of wealth is bad?  Naw lo!   It is saying that when your pursuit of wealth becomes your single goal, far deeper and reaching consequences await you.  

Basically, keep things in perspective.  Let us not allow our pursuit of wealth to cause us to be blind.  Let it not cause us to hate.  Let it not cause us to trample people underfoot on our way up.  Let it not cause us to forget our innate duty to our fellow brethren and sistren.  Let it not destroy our humanity.  For life is just to precious of a thing to waste.

G-bless,

   - patrick

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