Stigma or Truth: “You are a product of your environment”

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2 thoughts on “Stigma or Truth: “You are a product of your environment”

  1. Hello again. I think I may be your biggest fan….or I could just be using the blessing for what’s its purpose is for…to encourage someone else….because I am so bottled up and I can’t voice everything to any person that will actively listen. But anyways I say it’s both. My family was poor and we moved around alot. My grandmother always fried chicken because that’s what was the cheapest to feed a large family. Even when she gave Marc the money to go get food, it was fried chicken. I was so sick of chicken but I learned to be grateful. I had holes in my clothes and shoes. Marc and Deanna took care of that though. Growing up, my brothers and cousins always wanted what we didn’t have. They would take it and go to jail….it’s funny what we see that the Jones have and what we don’t have can change a person….but the problem was no structure of that father figure, however we did have a praying, holy ghost filled grandma Hun. And we loved her so. I think I was the only one that took heed to some of her sayings though….and it’s almost 20 years that she has been gone. I recently had a conversation with my brother who is currently detained and he voiced, you know I see why Hun was so rooted in the Word and in God, because on this Earth, you can’t survive without Him. It took this long for some of us to figure it out now that there is less than a handful of us. But the environment was taken with some of us….We were taken out of the “hood” but our behavior is sometimes still “ghetto” or “hood” or “ignorant.” For us, it’s where are the fathers? or Where are the uncles? to Lead the children, to discipline, to teach, to praise, to protect, to love, to show us the way? Not all of us were hood, but we lacked in areas that needed love and protection. The dos and don’ts, the yeses and nos. On the the next generation is to show everything that we were not taught but taught in love and to show respect, and how to appreciate each other’s successes without jealously, how to get to that success, to accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, to put Christ first, Let the Holy Spirit Lead you, Above All Have that relationship with Christ. To Be Brought up in the only Truth that matters and will meet every need you will ever need. Amen.

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