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It’s Long Enough!
By Yo’Nas Da LoneWolf-Muhammad
Updated Aug 5, 2008 - 12:38:00 PM
Greetings Relatives,
Have you ever been in a situation where you say to yourself, “God, how much longer?” Maybe you are tired of the same job, waking up everyday to go to an office you cannot stand. Or maybe you are in a relationship with someone and you know in your heart that this person is just for a season, but you are trying to turn it into a lifetime? Or you are trying to move out of state but circumstances are keeping you from going and you are asking yourself, “how much longer?” Recently, I have been feeling the same way.
God has been presenting to me people that are in situations where I can help them. Even though I may not have a lot financially, He has been showing me that I may not have a lot but I have enough to give to someone who may have less. Last month, my son’s caretaker was watching a neighbor’s 10-month old baby. He was so precious. I told her it was fine to bring the baby to my home. When I saw the baby, he
looked so ill and dehydrated. It turns out that his temperature was 103! Anyone with a heart would have cried when they saw this precious baby boy. I asked the caretaker how long he has been that way and she told me for a couple of days. She cannot find the mother. We called around. We finally contacted the young mother and told her to meet us at the hospital because we were going to take the baby there. She told me she had been evicted and she was looking for a home for her and her child. The doctors had to keep the baby under observation for a couple of days and social services said they would help the young mother. They told me if I had waited one more day to bring the child into the hospital, he probably would have died.
Last week, I was at a gas station and saw a young girl that was a couple of months pregnant crying on a cell phone about how her coke addicted boyfriend dropped her off 30 miles away from her home. I offered to take her home, and I prayed with her and the baby. She was 15-years-old.
As I am writing this article in a local bookstore, there are three homeless teens that come in every day to read a book, get out the heat and to get a drink of water in the bookstore’s café. Today, I said to myself “it’s long enough” and bought all three of them lunch, which they gladly accepted. I heard their stories, and prayed with them and parted ways.
For many years, I thought as a nation, how much longer are we going to watch our children being misguided, miseducated, motherless and fatherless?
I also wondered how much longer am I going to see the separation of the indigenous tribes? Then I heard that just last week the two largest tribes the Navajo and my tribe, the Lakota, have connected and met about ways to create economic development and energy initiatives. Both tribes have been separated long enough! They both are members of CERT (Council of Energy Resources Tribe). Like many tribes in this council they hold coal, oil, natural gas as well as renewable energy resources. So for this meeting between two tribal governments to sit down and develop concrete unity through energy and economic development, we are witnessing history in the making. Our ancestors have waited for this day. Maybe they too have said, “God, how much longer will it be for the unity of tribes to come together?”
Even though it may feel like it’s taking forever for you to get that promotion or to receive that economic stimulus check (smile), it’s long enough and your blessing will come. Don’t fall, don’t stumble. You must stand in God’s presence and you will be blessed. We may think that the glory of God is coming, but the glory of God is here. You are HIS glory!
