Im dying of thirst - Robert Glasper

My Prayer

After listening to this song once. I was immediately stayed because of the instrumentation. It's very similar to how I play and as well as how I like to conceptualize music.

But the part that got me was the little boy or girl at the end expressing her/ himself.

What is said among other thing is " I really enjoy we that we are all different and special people, I enjoy the fact that I am brown. I enjoy being brown. I think about being brown especially when my skin rips, then I am really thinking about brown. I am thinking about what color I am but I have to be myself. You have to be happy of who you are."

The basic and most fundamental of human needs to be accepted among others like them. When I anlazye what the young child was saying was that there was a concept of being disgusted of who they are. They stood on the other side. But she even gave a statement that was more complex than it seemed.

"When my skin rips, I am thinking about what color I am, but I have to be myself."

There is a dangerous precedent set when our children are conscious what they are before the care about who they are. I child should not have to care about what color they are when they hurt. They should speak to the hurt.

This speaks to the condition of this world. That the message that if you black you have an altogether different experience you have to prepare for. Thank God the young child ended where we all need to end.

"You have to be happy of who you are."

For this cause I bow my knee to the Father

Lord,

My heart is broken for the state of this world. Sin has ravaged the black community until our children are forced to consider realities that they should not have to consider. So much broken with us. How we look at ourselves, how to look at each other and how to look at you. Please lord heal the hurt in the peoples heart. Please send a healing to there soul the glorious light of your gospel. Send laborers in the fields of the one who we lost in 2014 and 2015. Convict the hearts of man who have become corrupted and have looked on the African american community with disdain rather with heart to understand. Influence the leaders in high places to affect policy to give us a chance to defend ourselves and to capture and correct those individuals who have no respect for whom they serve. Most of all Lord. Teach us how to lean on you again. How to know who we are. Give us a definition of ourselves we can be proud of. Lord I pray you protect my child as she enters this torrid generation.

I surrender myself as a willing work to speak to good of this community. Speak words that lift my fellow man up, that esteems him on the level worthy of your sons death. I trust you to guide me in the way to serve this community.

Lord let your will be done today, In Jesus name Amen.