Common: a Son, a Father, an Artist, a Friend, an Activist, a Humanitarian, and a Spiritual Teacher Bringing Love Mainstream in his new book, LET LOVE HAVE THE LAST WORD.!Beautiful People,No matter what it looks like, through the everyday struggles, the injustice, the ego, the greed and the hate; there is an energy moving through the UniVerse that offers Undeniable Hope. That energy is Love; for what are we but stardust?I Believe that we come to this Earth and are born as humans with free will. Encoded within us is a seed of Love.Yesterday, I saw the Goodness and felt the energy of many spirits connecting in Love. From the security, maintenance team, Ken Cummings, Esq and staff at Riverside Church to Rashid (who facilitated me having access to Common so I could share a copy of GLORY: A Life Among Legends by one of my important mentors, Dr. Glory Van Scott) and all of the members of Common's support team, his magnificent band and at least a thousand audience members including Cynthia Robinson-Bioh, Gwendolyn Black, Cherise Myers, Katrina, Nicole O'Connor, author/activist and scholar, Darnell L. Moore and artist Taj Brayboy; there was a tenderness rarely acknowledged but identifiable to me as Love.
I knew when a gracious, humble Common invited me to come on stage at Riverside Church to discuss my challenges around healing, forgiveness and Love; I was being Blessed by the Fruits of Spirit.And Common may not say it, but He Is an Awakened Spirit and a Master Teacher who is using his own life to remind us that each and every day, we have the option to be better and do better each and every day.In his courageous new book LET LOVE HAVE THE LAST WORD (which I spent the night reading), we are privy to his personal journey, his relationships with his Mother, his Father and his precious daughter Amoye. We also see his creative brilliance, his commitment to humanity, his compassionate heart, his pain and his strong resolve to forgive and work to bring good change. Though he is a troubadour of Love, Common shares his vulnerability and uncertainty with resolve to Love."... I can't lie. I feel foolish for offering love as a weapon; there is, I admit doubt in my heart about loves effectiveness among so much horror, so much suffering." says Common.And I personally identify with, and understand his hesitation and occasional frustration but know that his bravery, compassionate nature, his vulnerability and his quest for Justice and ongoing success is an Urgent Call for All of Us to look deeply into our own hearts, so that we too can discover the Love within. Because Ultimately, Love is an adjective, an energy, a noun and a verb.I am so very grateful that Common is a Brave Earth Angel in these perilous times. Like many of the Great Masters throughout time, his Awakening Call to Love Is Vibrating throughout the UniVerse."Matters of the spirit rise above the world, the physical world being just one part of our reality; the spiritual is the other, and to exist in any meaningful way in life, both should be engaged. Love is the way, the conduit from the spiritual to the physical, from soul to mind and body; to speak of love is to speak on a spiritual plane." says Common.I highly recommend LET LOVE HAVE THE LAST WORD. Like Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwin, John Coltrane, Angela Davis, Khalil Gibran, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Zora Neale Hurston, Bell Hooks, Nikki Giovanni, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Marianne Williamson, the man on death row who told him that he had a responsibility to give back and the many others that he has studied or learned from....Common Brings a Powerful, Truthful Message of Hope and Love in Action! I will be reading and using LET LOVE HAVE THE LAST WORD as a reference over, and over again...
Live & Love...
Rev. Melony McGant
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