Don’t Wait For Your Dream To Come To You, Go Get It
Jan 31, 2010 Spiritual Life
This afternoon I tuned into Life in the Spirit on WDKK radio on Blogtalk. The usual hosts are Stacy Latasaw and Angel Eyes, I don’t know Angel’s last name but she and Stacy make great co-hosts. They really complement each other. 
Today, however neither of them were on. It was D A Williams all by himself. He sent me a message to call in if I wanted to promote this station, you see WDKK is our Parent station. Anyway, I got myself together, even though I really didn’t feel like it. I just wanted to listen to the ladies and get some encouragement. But I did call in and DA was speaking about following the desires of your heart. He was speaking about the man at the pool of Bethesda.
The man laid there for 38 years praying an angel to come down and trouble the water. He had high hopes he would be the one to get into the pool and be made whole. When Jesus came the man wasn’t the first to enter the pool so he was discouraged. Jesus asked him if he really wanted to be made hold. After all, he waited for 38 years for someone to help him into the pool for his healing. Jesus said if you want to made healed, pickup your bed and walk.
The principal is that we must take personal responsibility for going after our dreams and stop waiting for other people to help us. God and family will be there to help but ultimately, it is up to the individual. This was such a powerful message through Mr Williams. So often we put our desires away because they don’t fit with what plan your spouse or your friend or even your child has in mind. We must follow our own paths, it’s not that we won’t have struggles and obstacles , but we can not let those things stop us from continuing on our paths. It was a very encouraging episode and I invite you to check it out from the archives and get your encouragement on. Have a beautiful and prosperous week. Listen to In The Spirit
Tags: encouragement, motivation, Uplifting
Living Black History
Jan 28, 2010 Legends, Today's Stars
Tonight, I had the pleasure of speaking with a Blues Legend. Drink Small has been making music for well over 50 years and he shows no signs of slowing down. During our conversation we played and sang for me, told jokes and shared some of his very language “Drinkism”. It was a delight speaking to him.
If you don’t know who he is, here’s part of our history: “The Blues Doctor”, who has been entertaining music lovers since the mid 1950s.
Drink Small (his real name) was born in 1933 in Bishopville (Lee County), SC. Known worldwide as “The Blues Doctor”, he plays virtuoso blues guitar, two-fisted piano, and sings in an inimitable basso profundo voice.
Drink is a recipient of the S.C. Folk Heritage Award, a member of the S.C. Hall of Fame, and has spent his life touring, recording, and playing a spectrum of Southern roots musics. He has performed at some of the nation’s top music festivals – Chicago Blues Festival (twice), New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (three times), King Biscuit Blues Festival (twice), Smithsonian-Folklife Festival, Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, Lincoln Center and Central Park concert series (NYC), and every major blues festival in the Southeast. He has been written up in myriad music magazines (downbeat, Metronome, Blues Revue, Il Blues, Juke Blues, Soul Bag, Blues News) and even made the cover of Living Blues (July/August, 1992 issue).
At the age of 76, Drink Small is at the top of his game and performing better than ever. Always creating new music, his latest opus is a tribute to President Barack Obama: “The United States Will Never Be the Same” (2009; CD single, ONLY available from Drink Small). He performs solo (acoustic or electric) and with his band. Drink Small will be a guest on Conversations on February 20, 2010.
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Tags: blues, doctor, drikism, drink small, guitarist, Old School, songwriter
