Just a thought

"My son, how come you don't send out the Bible verses anymore?" That's what my mother asked me the other day.

She didn't say it with attitude. She didn't pressure me. She just asked, gently--like only a mother can. And that question hit me harder than I expected.

You see, my mom is the reason I created FouyeBible.com in the first place. That little corner of the internet was built so she--and anyone like her--could read the Word of God online in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole.

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Have you ever looked around your job and thought, "I'm worth more than this?" Have you ever talked yourself out of something before even trying--because of fear, doubt, or a paper you didn't have?

It's Woodring, your humble servant. And that was me. I wrote an article about this back in 2005. I've decided to turn it into a Amazon Short Read eBook.

It's now available for download on Amazon Kindle

I was working in a warehouse--lifting dusty boxes, clocking in and out, telling myself the same excuse every day:
"When I get my green card, then I'll try."
"When I get a degree, then I'll apply."

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Want to know the Relationship between Marvel's Movie Black Panther, Toussaint Louverture and the History of Haiti? Read this from a text by Johns Hopkins historian Nathan Connolly...

Excerpts...

Dreams of a place like Wakanda began sometime around 1512 in the Caribbean mountains and forested hills above the mines and fields of Spain's colony, Santo Domingo. Then and there, Africans in the Americas first broke away from slavery to form their own societies with indigenous island people....

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Sometimes, as a Haitian, you find yourself working late night and suddenly you get hungry. What you eat? What do you snack on?

For you Haitians in the Diaspora, don't tell me you go into the fridge and pull out the left over rice and beans and chicken and start eating away.

My mother in New York, she often has some Chokola in her fridge, and me I just love "Pen ak mamba" (bread and peanut butter).

My mom always keeps a couple of bags of bagels frozen in her little freezer. You toast one of them bagels and some peanut butter to it boy... You heat up that chokola and you have yourself a delicious late night Haitian snack.

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Tout Haitiens dwe gade, tande epi konprann video sa. Elèv lekòl ak ivèsitè yo surtout ki panse sa k ap pase en Haiti se yon ti bagay like this like that.

Gade video sa:

Haiti - Anatomie d'une destruction programée

https://youtu.be/SAE-zKOUPLQ?si=yY49x398_YO_Kn-r

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During a conversation with my cousin in New York, he predicted that the money transfers coming from the Haitian diaspora in the form of remittances may be depleted within the next 10 to 15 years and he give a very good reason for that.

What reason you ask?

Here's what my cousin said:

"It is our parents who are sending money to Haiti right now," my cousin said, "it's not even us."

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Haiti's history is marked by a series of challenges that have often left its population in a vulnerable position. There is one principle reason why Haiti has always found itself in this predicament. Some people will not admit it but we all know it is true.

From its early days as the first black republic following a successful slave revolution, Haiti faced ostracism and isolation from international powers due to fear of the revolutionary ideas it represented.

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Nowadays, with problems of kidnapping and insecurity being such a hot topic in Haiti, one wonders when did kidnapping for ransom actually start becoming an issue in our country. The answers on this page may surprise you.

Around what time period did kidnapping start to become an issue in Haiti?

Kidnapping has been a sporadic issue in Haiti for several decades, but it gained significant attention and prominence in the late 1990s. Kidnapping for ransom became more organized and prevalent in Haiti around the early 2000s.

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The Haitian people are in a cockfight -- There is a lot of cockfighting going on in the Haitian community. We fight amongst ourselves, our kids live with the shame while the world is laughing at us. It's like a cockfight.

If it does not stop, we all loose. Yes, we will be dead and our kids will pick up where we left off. They will end up in a cockfighting pit just like us because we didn't teach them how to get out.

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Let me ask you a question: If you had to choose between having LOTS of money and living a LONG healthy life, which would you choose???

I once told my father if I had to choose between having LOTS of money OR living as long as he has been living and in good health, I would choose long life.

I grew up in Haiti close to the country side. I have seen people who have nothing, by that I mean NO material things: no refrigerators, no air conditioning, no tv, no cable, no internet, no smartphone, none of the things that you who live in a modern city would feel so "poor" without. Yet and still, these "poor" people ate organic food everyday.

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