Better Together

December 26, 2023, seemed like just another ordinary day. I went to the movies in Chicago with my daughter and her godparents to see The Color Purple. But what I didn’t know was that heaven had already scheduled an encounter. A few weeks earlier, I had received a prophetic word from Apostle Donald Garner. He told me that God was going to begin revealing things to me about the cloud of witnesses and the ministry of angels — that heaven would begin to share secrets, and I would begin to speak as God revealed. He asked me, “Has it started yet?” I quietly said, “Yes.” What he didn’t know was that God had been showing me glimpses of heaven for years. But that day, while watching The Color Purple, something in the spirit realm opened.

As I watched, tears streamed down my face. My heart wept for the things I had endured in my previous marriage, and for the deep, generational pain my ancestors carried. I felt the weight of their sorrow and the strength of their survival. Yet, in the middle of my tears, I heard the gentle voice of the Lord whisper: “Your next marriage will be an answered prayer — not just yours, but theirs too.”

I sat there overwhelmed by His love. God was reminding me that He redeems not only our stories, but our bloodlines. He’s the God of generations — the same God who heard the cries of our ancestors and preserved their dreams in us.

As we entered February — Black History Month — my heart was stirred again with the memories of those who fought and bled for freedom, equality, and truth. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream because he had already seen the mountain top — like Abraham, who saw the promise from afar. Has God shown you a dream, too, even when it still feels far away?

Malcolm X’s life was taken while exposing truths that brought my great-grandmother great sorrow. Those wounds ran deep, but so did the call. One of the burdens I carry is to see marriages restored in my family and in the Black community. Because it’s not just a personal mission — it’s generational. The brokenness from the past, including the damage caused by my late great-grandfather Elijah Muhammad’s teachings, left many families shattered. But God is raising up repairers of the breach.

Hebrews 11:39-40 says, “These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised, since God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.”

We are the better that they never saw. We are the generation called to finish what they started — to rebuild what was torn down. Isaiah 58:12 declares that we shall “raise up the foundations of many generations” and be called “the repairer of the breach.”

How do we begin? By turning our hearts back to God. By humbling ourselves, forgiving, and letting Him heal our families. By ending divorce, loving intentionally, and letting God be the foundation of our homes again.

Our ancestors dreamed of family — of love unbroken and homes unshaken. Though The Color Purple may not have been a true story, it represents a very real truth: they suffered for what we now have the privilege to build. They died dreaming of what we can live — a family free to love, stay, and grow together.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 says, “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.” We are better together. We are the living fulfillment of their dream. And God says, “Get ready — because what’s next is better.”

Our Martial Constitutional

You were intentional,

Declaring your desires,

Being Unconventional,

Writing your marital constitutional,

You, me, and the trinity, 

in order to form a more perfect union,

Taking communion,

 to Establish a new revolution, 

Of relational bliss to debunk chaos and dethrone divorce,

You cried loud and lifted up your voice,

You made a choice,

This will never happen again,

We will win,

We will remain until the end,

until death do us part,

You will have my love and my whole heart,

never abandoned and forsaken,

Let there be no mistaken,

I do love you.

You are my hearts desire,

My fire.

We declared our Justice, our liberty and blessing,

No more guessing,

You are the one. 

We have defeated giants and lived to tell,

We had the audacity to hope for our future

and dug a well, 

we stormed the gates of hell,

walked out of the furnace and the lion dens,

We laid down our lives and have become friends,

We took back generational blessings that were ours, 

We overcame death and open communication and love are our super powers,

Now we are partners in freedom, in love, in faith, in purpose with definition,

We have settled the matter with confirmation, knowing this was a God given position.