“Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani”

Its crunch time in the Giggetts’ household and like so many moms, dads, grandparents, and care providers, we are “putting our shoulder to the wheel” to ensure that our kids’ school assignments and other ancillary requirements are received and graded by each subject expert, better known as, their teachers! This process is slightly complicated for me because my husband has not been feeling very well this week.

Nevertheless, the show must go on.

As I prodded through checking the status of my daughter’s Bible assignments, a few words from her lesson stirred my spiritual soul and left me in a reflective haze.

For those of us who attend or have attended Sunday school, I suspect that you are still familiar with the story of Jesus’ death, Resurrection, and Ascension and how at the ”ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani which is being interpreted as, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” These words revealed how deeply He felt abandoned by God as He bore the sins of mankind.

Jesus is not the only one being “nailed to the cross!”

Reckon President Obama shouts “Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani” each day, too. It must be extremely disheartening and discouraging knowing that no matter what he says or no matter what he does, there is a fringed segment of our population and others under his nose, who won’t hesitate to publicly demonstrate how they spitefully hate, despise, and revile him. So, instead of working collaboratively with our leader, they would rather cause hari-kari to the detriment of this nation.

Perhaps it just might help his legislative stalemates if President Obama applied a Michael Jackson concoction to “whiten” his skin so that the “boneheads” in Congress would not be reminded of his ancestral lineage. Maybe that would ease some of their ruthlessness, viciousness, and the vile treatment that this decent man receives simply because he is “black” and had the “audacity” to defy political wisdom and history by becoming our President—–twice! Why is that a sin?

As for me, I would tell each of you ignoramuses to kiss where the “sun doesn’t shine!”

Okay. I won’t stoop to President Obama and Jesus’ antagonists’ level, but know it is so maddening for me to resist the temptation. After reading how President Obama and his family members are constantly treated dismissively, frequently disrespected, and often subjected to prejudicial mischaracterizations, I often want to suspend my home training and debunk my Christian teachings of “turning the other cheek” in order to give those embittered pharisaical peewees the freaking “bird!”

So, in lieu of giving them some of my “just desserts,” I propose the following retaliatory measures:

For starters, to overcome the republicans’ dastardly stalemates in Congress; I would advise President Obama to, effective immediately, change his party affiliation to Republican.

Next, as the leader of the party, invite every non-white voter to “immigrate” to the Republican Party en masse prior to the 2014 and 2016 election cycles. Now, as RINO voters (Republicans in Name Only), we are strategically aligned to successfully bolster the next maneuver seamlessly.

The next tactical act would be to “block vote.” Let’s vote out of office every republican incumbent (obstructionist) and replace them with a newer generation of thought leaders who can demonstrate that they are consensus builders, collaborative doers, and have proven to be individuals who are not beholden to the powerful lobbyists and who are willing to put this country’s business interests above party edicts.

Finally, everyone must sign a pledge that they would honor term limits and disavow accepting any money from any other entity other than from Mr./Mrs./Ms. Average Citizen!

“Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani.”

Wish money wasn’t an impediment. Would visit every Congressional members’ “house of worship” as I want to get a better understanding of the God they serve and further analyze the “book” in which they base their Biblical beliefs and teachings upon because I am so hard-pressed to believe that each of these “Christians” actually think that they exemplify the embodiment of what Christianity truly means.

Perplexed on how they can leave their assembly righteous and spirit-filled and then treat President Obama like an unbefitting pip-squeak or a sack of manure? Confused on how they can learn about Jesus’ humanity and then return to Washington, D.C. the very next week and heartlessly “slice and dice” programs that enable the sick, the infirmed, and the poor to exist for just one more day.

Sadden on how they can be an accessory to the likes of Trump, Palin, Hannity, Rove, Limbaugh, and others who, on a daily basis, desecrate the memory of President Obama’s mother and father by inferring that he was born in a Muslim country instead of Hawaii.

Searching for heroism when their cowardly and demented accomplices spew a plume of malice, venom, stereotypes, and suspicions on and about non-white people, or on folks with different sounding names, or on those who practice religions differently from theirs.

Accept my “invitation” to hear and learn from my spiritual leader who, like Jesus, evangelizes truth. Come on over and get some good-ole fashion Biblical teaching from Senior Pastor H.T. Rhim. As a “black-bottom” preacher, he has the innate ability to unravel any chapter and verse within the Bible into comprehensible layman’s terms. A “dose” of Senior Pastor Rhim would sanitize your demoniac dogma! Bet you would leave our edifice truly transformed, knowledgeable, and well-equipped to practice the tenets of God’s love as you write and execute laws that impact the daily lives of voiceless citizens.

Yes, my God. We, the people have forsaken You, as well as, each other!