LET'S DO IT AGAIN!

LET'S DO IT AGAIN:

It's time to start it all over. Let's renew and restore and revisit some things that are not living up to our greatest expectations.

We spend our lives trying, sometimes desperately, often despondent, because we feel like we'll never fit in: to our family, to society's construct of what it means to be a man or a woman, to the morals that they espouse but don't expect to hold up.

WELL, LET'S DO IT AGAIN!

I DEFY YOU TODAY, as we go into a new year and a new decade, to be bold enough to re-do family and re-do church and your worship experience and re-do relationships in our communities, even and especially when people say that they don't work or can't!

LET'S DO IT AGAIN!

It's time for renewal and refreshment and restoration and the grace of Grace that has given us a spiritual, emotional and literal do-over!

Let's do family again and maybe this time you will love on your children differently than your parents loved on you and if you don't have children, consider fostering or adopting or even mentoring, so that your good living can be an example for some LGBTQ youth or boy/girl in your hood who needs to see the shining example of you!

Let's do love again and stop running with the cliched stereotypes that 2 men can't stay committed or that 2 women need something more! Let's trust that our families are enough and our love is enough to not only sustain us, but maintain us and build us to even greater heights. Love WILL keep us together and This Will Be the greatest example yet, because as they try to tear apart our love and say it doesn't matter, we will stand up for love. The greatest example of love and marriage are couples who will fight for it, even as Kate and Jon, Tiger and his many mistresses, run out of the burning building called marriage, we dare to run in and say WE will rescue you Matrimony! WE will save you!

LET'S DO IT AGAIN: Let's restore our families and renew our own strength and replenish our own wells and regenerate our own businesses by supporting each other as we build new endeavors. Let's do it again and try to find a way in 2010 to live in the POSSIBILITY that we--Black, Latin, Asian, White, Biracial, Multi-racial--in our various sexual expressions--Gay, Bisexual, Straight, MSM, SGL, label-free but loving freely--are ENOUGH!

Let's do it again family and show ourselves that we can build institutions and be loved by God and stand up for love and walk in truth and marry if we so desire and live in a truth that is so true that we will stand in it, up for it, daily.

Let's do it again!

It's time for a Revolution and instead of trying so hard to live up to what others say and do, only to discover that they aren't living up to the same rules that they impose against others, screaming about the sanctity of marriage while leaving their longstanding, love-suffering wives for newer models (figuratively and literally).

It's time for a Revelation. No one can help us, love us, lift us, but us. It is our job to make others see us as we are, not differently. It's time for us to open ourselves up to being seen as humans being, people loving, lives living and only then will others stand up WITH us instead of thinking we are less than to be pitied and punks who need them to stand up FOR us.

I Am A Man. I love other men.

I Am A Child of God and God loves me everyday, deeply, dearly and so diligently that I know that Peace and Favor rest upon me!

I want that to fill up my cup and spill over into every conversation and coupling in our communities!

LET'S DO IT AGAIN! In 2010, let's be bold enough, brave enough, spiritual enough, religious enough, powerful enough, supportive enough, loving enough, self-assured enough to TRUST that we are enough--not to separate but to STAND UP.

It's time for a do-over!

It's time for a makeover!

It's time for a Make-Me-Over!

LET'S DO IT AGAIN, TRUSTING THAT WE ARE ENOUGH

AND THAT WE WILL BUILDING SOMETHING NEW, DO

SOMETHING GREAT THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD,

BECAUSE WE WILL CARE, WE DO CARE ENOUGH TO CHANGE OUR OWN

LIVES!

LET'S DO IT AGAIN AND IT AND IT AND IT AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN...UNTIL WE'RE SATISFIED!

HAPPY NEW YEAR: 2010 IS YOUR BEST/BLESSED YEAR YET BECAUSE IT STARTS WITH MORE POSSIBILITY THAN YOU EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE!