What Ever Happened??

Can somebody please tell me where all the kids outside are? I have been living in this bowie community for 2 years!! In the morning there are 50 kids in front of my house waiting for the school bus. After school its the same 2 gumps outside and the rest are nowhere to be found.

I don't know about y'all, but when I was a kid...You couldn't catch me in the house. Doesn't matter where I was. I could have been at home, grandma's house or at a friends house. Pick up basketball, football in the streets, baseball, kickball, wall ball whatever!! Even street hockey with roller blades... YES, STREET HOCKEY!!

You wanna know why your little brother sucks at sports?!? I will tell you why. That damn PlayStation, cell phones and personal laptops!! Don't get me wrong, I had a PlayStation also, only got one game a year.. MADDEN!! What is a 13 year old doing with a cell phone?!?! "He might need to contact me" I got a phone when I turned 18 and I did perfectly fine. You need a cell to track your kids, then you have a bigger problem.

All y'all parents out there, come on... lets get back to those old values we had. Let them go outside and get some stitches. They will be ok. Lets stop raising nerds. I know one thing....My son will be on the block!! Beating your kid's ass.. cuz I told him to.. lmbo

How Easy We Forget

It's so weird how we forget how good we have it. I just had this conversation in the car on the way back from the gym a couple hours ago with my man Dre. We were talking about these different situations in life that we seem to encounter all the time, and without us really thinking about it, things always seem to work itself out.

He said something that stuck in my head, I heard a pastor preach about last year. "Man, I thank God for everything." It stuck in my head because I thought about how many things we take for granted. Waking up in the morning to see the light of a new day, running water, safely arriving to work and home. We expect these things because we are accustomed to living our lives not remembering that life itself is not promised.

With that being said, I thought about my birthday which is today. Dre didn’t even know that my birthday was coming up because I didn’t mention it. Its not a big deal. When I got home I immediately thanked God because my life could have been taken at any moment. My life could have been taken any of the last 365 days in a million different ways. I have been blessed enough to see another birthday. Twenty six years and I’m still breathing and in good health with tons to be thankful for.

As I lay in my bed watching the game, I get a call from my sister at like 11:40pm. She never calls that late, and if I get a call that late from a family member I already know I am not going to like what I am about to hear. She is hysterical and tells me that Chris’(Her Husband) mother suddenly died and she needs me to come to the house while they go to the hospital. My body went numb for a minute……….. On my way to the house I’m on my 104.1 fm and I hear this song(I wish I knew who sings it). It went “It ain’t over… until God says its over .. It ain’t over… Until God says its done….” In the car I started to pray and song was just talking to me. I smiled and thought, my brother in law lost his mother just now, but its not over for her. God has the Victory and I wanted y’all to know that.

Don’t take life for granted, we are all blessed and remember to thank God for everything. As I enter my 26th year on this earth, I want to thank Him and I want y’all to know that there isn’t anything you can’t take to Him. Let God take the wheel in your life.