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I now Understand Death

When memories of where I was when I heard of my younger sister's passing in 2016, decide to visit, I end up questioning God. Everything awakens. I have this mind that family and peers describe as morbid. It vividly paints a picture of every image relayed to it. Mine is not a fearful brain. When it hears "don't go there!" it interprets it as a beckoning gesture that yearns for it to explore it all. After burial my eyes are fixated to the setting sun. They know that when going to the cemetery, we head to that direction. I watch its fading light disappear and darkness takes over. On the first day, I worry if she will be okay lying there alone. I fear for her 21 year old body lying there without us to protect it from everything that might cause her harm. I then think about the decaying process, let me shut this down! My understanding about why we die as a Christian is based on the conclusion that God borrows us our loved ones. Now, before they became ours, they were his. 
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JOB 13:5

Job 13:15, Job declares, “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him.” I have found myself so trapped in my own life and felt like I was beyond repair. There is no other pain as knowing that God allowed pain to reside in your heart. At times, this seems merciless but if you have walked with God before going through what you are going through, you will understand that he is a God of purpose. If someone will try to dispute that he  allows pain to  come our way, then why did he let his only begotten son bleed on the cross? I believe that even when Jesus knew his purpose, he knew that the cross was heavy to bear but the will was  not his. See, Jesus was afflicted in the flesh and not in his spirit. The crucifixion to me was his graduation. It was his transition(preparation) to be at the right hand of the father. See, Jesus was an example to us. If he wanted to, he could have saved himself but what would life be if he gave up? We would tell God that the yoke is heavy and we should be freed
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Mark Knight's caricature of Serena

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Following the 2018 US open where Serena Williams expressed her discontent with the umpire's decision, a controversial cartoon depicting Serena emerged. The Australian cartoonist, Mark Knight has been under fire for his illustration. Above is Mark Knight's caricature of Serena. Many have argued that this piece resembles the crude Jim Crow era of segregation. The image is typical of other works of art depicting the angry black woman. During such an era, black women were depicted as ugly, masculine, crazy,temperamental and ill mannered. Critics believe that the cartoonist could have found a better approach to depict the tennis player.  He on the other hand, refused that it was racially inappropriate.  A caricature is defined as " a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect." It is satirical in nature. Artists have emerged with their own versio
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