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Don’t you just hate it? You’re up there at the job, trying to keep your cool. But the haters and naysayers and gossipers just keep on coming–like roaches. There’s a message printed on a Brick in Proverbs 26:20. Babies, “Put on your headphones..block out the noise”. Not the headphones like the ones I wear, doing the news on 1010WINS. I’m talking about the headphones in that scripture. Put in another way, Ignoring gossip (mean talk, boisterous shade-throwers) starves the attention it needs to spread–if you simply block it out. As they say, “Without wood, a fire goes out”. Hello? And don’t EVER resort to arguing on the job. If you’re standing there arguing with a nutcase, folks walking by won’t be able to tell who’s who! “Nuff” said, Unk.

Who would have thought in a million years, that a bushy-headed wide-eyed kid from the housing projects in Orlando, Florida would be talking to millions (giving the news) and “cranking out Bricks”? Wow. Just wow! Family, I didn’t always follow Christ. But when I did, I saw a huge difference in my life. So now I ask God “daily” to order my steps (It’s on a Brick in Psalms 119:133). Some of the roads I’ve traveled on this journey makes even me question, “How in the heck did I make it out of there alive”? But when I got back on the road…Are you all feeling this? I will remind you (from previous posts and testimonies) I came to New York will ill-intentions about my life. But God obviously had other plans. I’ve got a book coming out which will explain it all. SMH….Just Wow. Wow God, WOW! Unk.

You know, I walk through this big giant, scary mecca everyday. And I am always taken by the young people I see, and the looks on their faces– so innocent and pure. And depth of their eyes tell the story of a hunger for acceptance, “stardom” and a yearning desire for that “big break”. They come from everywhere. And they are so wide-eyed, searching for purpose. Gosh, was I this way, when I first moved here, 18 years ago? I remember all I had was a pair of Stephon Marbury $8 sneakers, two shirts and a couple pair of jeans. I wasn’t a teen, but I was a vagabond who had lost my way. But then, “God”. Lord, I wish I could take each and every one of these young people and give them a boost; a start in…”whatever”. I do my share of help and support, but I wish I could guide them all. There’s a scripture which says it all though: I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me. To them, (and everybody else) I say, You can…and You will…but only “in Christ”. Believe in yourself, but in Christ. Unk

You need only look at the shoulder of a parents shirt, jacket, dress (or any other apparel) to know what happened. If it has stains, you already know a baby has been there. I’ve had enough spit-up on my collar to know whatever you put in that baby, if you shake him up, it’s going to come out on your shirt. So what do you think is going to happen if you do the same thing to an impressionable teen? It’s time for us (long overdue) to go back to raising “Proverbs” children. And get to them now, while they’re truly soaking up EVERYTHING. Or the court system is going to raise him or her FOR YOU. Proverbs 22:6 says it all. Whatever you put in that kid, (or whatever negative vices they see you do, or whatever negative things THEY do and are allowed to get away with) will eventually come up and come out on your shoulder. And God forbid if they run up on a teacher, a cop or some other authority and get “shaken up”. And all the things you put in that child (good or bad) is going to come out! Trust me. As a news man, I’ve sat in enough courtroom hallways where parents are crying their eyes out, because of something that was put in their child, that has now come out and the penal system has taken over. And quite often, it’s not necessarily some bad milk that YOU put in them–but they got into somebody else’s bad milk (that’s why we need to be mindful of who and where our children spend their time). Bottom line:

If you put “good” in them, then “good” will come out– Yes mam, Yes sir, Thank you sir. Put or allow bad in them, and your shoulders will be stained with tears, bad news etc., for a lifetime. ‘Nuff said. Unk