Note from Jackie Wright, Wright Enterprises--Here it is Sunday, January 13, 2013 and thinking I wanted to slow my roll from the usual pace of getting up early Sunday to attend the first worship service and get that piping hot first taste of the Word of God. Just musing in my mind about what it all means. Thinking about the importance of worship service being more than an event, but a lifestyle. How do you take the inspiration of that time of holiness with God and His people into the real world? How do you make a difference? How can you be an effectual prayer or a worshipful song in the day to day living life? How do you translate the wisdom of God in a way that is understandable to those not interested, don't care or are just not paying attention?
I came across a post from Bay Area artistic photographer Malaika H Kambon on LinkedIn that led me to Davey D's Daily News. After reading the post "Got Myself A Gun".... I came across, the story you see posted below. Thoughts of Newtown and the San Francisco mothers of the Healing Circle who have lost their sons to gun violence, came fast and furious. So what do you do? Just try to absorb the pain, knowing someone's mother, someone's family is crying. This particular story has come across my desk today. It is too hard to just turn my eyes to something else. You, the one, who wants to make a worshipful difference outside the church walls. The least I can do is share this story and share this song adding my voice to the cry. We have to teach our children well. No thing, no false bravado, no anger, no hurt, nothing is valued above another person's life. No one's thoughts, ideas, feelings can justify killing another human being. Let's love! Let's teach our children to value themselves and others. "Thou Shalt Not Kill," can we take it off the shelf, dust it off and talk to our children.
From Archives of Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
Slain Rapper Left Behind a Song Addressing Killings in Chicago
We
are all gonna have to step up and demand a different social and
political climate for us all...The recent passing of rap artist Johnny Boy Da Prince aka Johnny B in Chicago is becoming all too common...
On January 10th 2013, rapper Johnny B had just left the studio and decided to do a stop over to see a friend before heading home and was shot 8 times in the back and left for dead after leaving the friends house in the West side of Chicago. Police are still investigating and there are no suspects in custody at this time.
Johnny B wrote and recorded this song to highlight violence in Chicago and unfortunately he became victim to that violence he wrote about. This is the song he recorded. Unfortunately the song was not completed but I think its best to post it as he left..it's called "Just Like You"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO984JlT0PQ
"Nothin hurts better than the truth, the fact that skin ain't bullet proof .....Somebody looked like you killed somebody looked like you, cant even cry cause you happy that i just wasn't you."..... In the end we just killin our own kin" - Johnny B
CHICAGO TRIBUNE STORY ON JOHNNY TAYLOR, JOHNNY BOY DA PRINCE "JOHNNY B"