Can you imagine playing a game of darts, but being blind-folded, spun around, and then told to hit the target? How likely are you to hit a target that you can't even see?  Yet that is how too many people wander through life; not seeing where they are going, and no real life targets. Is that you? Answer the questions in this podcast, and find out. Let Us Not Forget the importance of having targets in life.

By faith, I believe in the "Power of Parents," to  to turn things around in our communities, our country, and even in the world. Join me for this podcast and learn why I believe parents have the power to truly make a difference, and how we can do it.  Power to the Parents!

What are the things you wish that you had learned in school, but it wasn't taught? Would it be about borrowing, budgeting, banking, investing, and maintaining good credit? These things fall under the title of financial literacy. What if I were to tell you that there is a credit union that teaches these important life skills to high school students, and that it is readily available to high schools? Wouldn't you want your teenager to receive these lessons, and hopefully avoid some of the costly financial mistakes many adults have made ? Can you imagine the difference this could have made in your life? Well, grab your high schooler and listen and learn about how and why math skills really do matter. And tell them that life is getting ready to get real.

Life is a journey. If it isn't one thing, it another. Join me as I share a part of one of my journeys. It's personal and it's real. This episode says "Let Us Not Forget" to encourage, enlighten, and inspire one another through our own life lessons, because that's where our real power to become empowered will come from.

If you have ever felt hopeless and powerless about government, then this podcast brings words of hope and puts power back in the hands of the people. That's why the next time you vote, please don’t pull a lever, push a button, or check a box for a party or a person without knowing who you are voting for, and why you are voting for them, because Black America, we must learn to do more than just vote, we must learn to "Vote Smart." This podcast will share with you apps and websites that will put information at your fingertips, and provide you with the knowledge to help us hold our elected officials accountable, and put the power of government back into our hands. When we vote, let's vote for our future, and the future of a better, stronger, and safer America for all Black people. There are two parts to this podcast and you will need to listen to both of them as we learn to "Vote Smart" with winning in mind.

Today I prayed and asked God "to give me the courage not to be a coward." Then I meditated on two of my favorite quotes, seasoned them with a little Deuteronomy 28, and the result is the title this message, The Courage Not To Be A Coward." I encourage you to take it standing up, and not sitting down, because that's what I had to do to record it. Please listen, and be encouraged, and enlightened, to be empowered.

Are you waiting on God to answer a prayer or prayers that appear to have gone unanswered? However, sometimes it's so easy to say and to even think we are waiting on God to answer our prayers, whereas, we are actually waiting or relying on ourselves or someone else to the answer them. Who are you relying on to answer your prayers? Listen to the powerful testimony from someone who at a critical time in their life, experienced what God alone can and will do, if we believe, trust, wait, and rely on him, to answer our prayers. Then afterwards, listen to a devotional message taken from a publication called The Word For You Today, which is where the title to this episode originated. It references, 2 Corinthians 1:9,  which says, "We stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God."

This message comes from an amazing devotional booklet titled The Word for You Today, Strength and Guidance for Daily Living." It will be in three parts. Please listen, enjoy each one, and be blessed.

This episode is full of encouraging reminders of our power and our potential as a people. Our minds alone are a goldmine and the potential for a Black Wall Street exist in every one of our communities. It is also a reminder "Let Us Not Forget," that there is no American history without our own Black history, as you will discover in this episode.  Black America, wake up, speak up, stand up, and be heard. We have been silenced and silent for far too long. Now is our time to make things happen and to get things done. Pass it on!