What is the Truth?

I promised myself that I would update my blog every week but I do not write just to write. Writing to me is a way of giving a piece of my soul, so I wait for my soul to call for me to write on a particular topic. I know it sounds a little too heavy, but I figure if I consciously write to inspire, I will make a conscious effort to speak in the same way.

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I was watching the Oprah show and the show was addressing "The Face of Poverty".

I know there are a number of people that will not agree with what I am going to say but I welcome you to leave a comment. I am in Seminary and I am getting my masters in Divinity. I do not have a relationship with religion but I do have a relationship with God and Jesus Christ. I may not agree but I respect all different types of religions.

I know humanity will have to answer to God for the tests that God gives us daily as brothers and sisters on this earth and involved in this race. One of those tests is the plight of poverty. If I believe God is all powerful and provides blessings, then I must also believe that God allows ills to occur. There are some theologians, spiritualists, and God-fearing people that would disagree with me fully on this point. But I see God as a great parent that rears its children teaching them the way of the world and then backing off as they become adults to let them learn their way.

This world is not learning the way. What is the way?

The way is to look at the truth. I was not raised in the 60s or 70s, but it seems as though the truth was looked at and dealt with, most of the time it was faced with a fight, but they faced it. If the truth was not given to them, they went looking for it.

No one wants the truth anymore but they want their truth, the truth that makes them comfortable. The truth that makes them remain safe within themselves. This world distorts the truth so much through religious judgements, opinions, and mainstream media.

The truth is this country is full of poverty especially for African-Americans and Hispanics. We have television shows that talk about it but there are no shows that promote the action of doing something about it.

Poverty is a heavy monster that has roared for many years and it affects us all.

The truth is we do not have marches any longer to help promote awareness regarding poverty.

The truth is we do not have sufficient and dedicated programs to help create a change within people.

The truth is churches are now having a race to have the most buildings wrapped inside their iron gates.

The truth is we have reality shows that have nothing to do with most people's reality.

The truth is........well, as cliche as it sounds, we can not handle the truth.

We can not handle the fact that we have failed each other.

We have failed God's truth. God's truth basically is to take care of each other through actions of love, compassion, and understanding. But we have allowed our judgements, our biases, and our truths to stop us from doing that work.

God has his truth and its a perfect truth, so if he helped us based upon His truth we would all be living in complete hell. But instead he comes to us full of mercy, grace, understanding, and love.