Keeping in Stride

Hello folks.  It's 11:36 PM on Tuesday night and I just finished sending out a few contracts for The Clean Comedy Clinic Inc.  We have a big tour coming up with my man Michael Hodges from Play It by Ear Productions out of Killeen, TX on May 9, 2015 right before Mother's Day.  We are looking forward to this.  Mothers are so very important to us all.  Without mothers where would we be? I love my mother so much although it seems like we are in that period of role reversal, where I'm telling her the things that she should be doing like she use to tell me many years ago.  I believe it's called the "circle of life."  That's where our parents took care of us and now we get to take care of them.  The operative word is "get".  Yes we don't have to take care of them, we get to take care of them.  In fact we don't have to do much of anything in life, we "get" to do things in life.  We've got to focus on that attitude.  I'm speaking to myself people.  I think they call it changing your trajectory.

Well I'm going to call it quits for the night.  We had a long day starting with the visiting nurse coming to the house at 8 AM to see my Mother.  I also got a call from my partner Sims, who works with me on Youth Vision Builders Inc. www.youthvisionbuilders.com, our youth mentor program in McDonough, GA.  We mentor the kids from the McDonough Housing Authority and surrounding areas.  W'eve been doing it for almost four years now. We meet every Tuesday at 4 PM.  February will be our anniversary month.  I believe that we've made a difference in that community.  If you get a chance go to our website or check out Youth Vision Builders on Facebook to see what we do.  We are just regular people helping regular people.  I think the biggest thing that we've done is stayed consistent.  Sometimes we don't have a great speaker at our meeting or have any special events taking place, but we just show up for some pizza and good talk with the kids.  We've grown to win their trust over the years.  I've seen a lot of them grow up right in front of my eyes.  We try to instill values, manners, and goal setting.  All our children need is a chance and for someone to take a little time with them.  I know it's tough for many of us because we are on the treadmill of life, but if you ever just get a few minutes take some time and talk to our youth.  Don't just talk to your children.  Speak to someone else's children.  I always figure that if I pour something good into these kids, that the universe will cause someone to pour good into mine as well.  Each one teach one.  It takes a village.  You know what I mean.

Take a look at our latest television segment for our stand-up comedy television show.  It's called "The Women of Gospel Comedy Live."  It's hot.  Check it out and share it with someone.  Tell me what you think about it.  Laughter does the heart good like a medicine.

Peace and God Bless,

Willie Brown

www.cleancomedyclinic.com

Willie Brown's Journey Of Faith: It's Sunday Post Time

Willie Brown's Journey Of Faith: It's Sunday Post Time: Hello Folks: It's Sunday, January 11, 2015.  I call it post time, because this is the day that most students who are online post their...

It's Sunday Post Time

Hello Folks:

It's Sunday, January 11, 2015.  I call it post time, because this is the day that most students who are online post their work to their professors.  And yes I have some work to post as well.  I'm almost finished with my seven page paper on Forgiveness.  It is our final project for Pastoral Caregiver class. We are now quickly moving into Worship as our next class or cohort as they say at Ohio Christian University.  I should be working on my reference page, but I glanced at my blog and couldn't resist.  I had a great day thus far.  I woke up at 8 AM and watched Bishop Dale C. Bronner from Word of Faith on television.  He gave a great message as usual.  Then I fell back to sleep and woke up at 9:48 AM to my son Willie's phone call.  He called me to ask me if I was going to church.  I was feeling so relaxed that I wanted to lay back down in bed, but I knew if I did I would miss service at Tabernacle of Praise International.  So I got up and prepared to attend service.

My wife told me that she would not be going because she waited too late to get ready, and began to make breakfast for my mother.  I then called my son back and told him that I would swing by and pick him up for service.  Church service was off the chain as usual.  It started out with a high sense of praise and worship led by the choir.  Everyone was on one accord.  The music was great and singing seemed to bring down the spirit of the Lord.  I was real excited to see everyone, but mainly to have my son Willie III by my side.  There is nothing better than for a parent to have their older children by their side in worship.  That is evidence that the enemy's plan to prevent your offspring from being in the house of the Lord did not work. And that gives one the strength to clap and shout even louder.  Yes there is a spiritual warfare that we are dealing with in these last days.  We have to fight the spirit through the spirit, and that is through prayer and fasting.  When the disciples tried to remove the demon from the young man in the Bible and could not, they asked Jesus why they were not able to do so.  And Jesus said in Matthew 17 19:21 "howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Therefore, prayer and fasting is the tool that we must use when fighting spiritual warfare.  Prayer and Fasting not just prayer.  Sometimes we've got to push ourselves to do those things that are uncomfortable to get to the place where God would have us to be.  Since this is the beginning of the year many people start with a fast to set the course of the year in a positive direction.  Our church is on the Daniel Fast right now.  I pray for all of you who may be on some type of fast in order to build up your spiritual strength and relationship with God.

Be encouraged.  Be steadfast and unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord 1 Corinthians 15:58.  Until next time I say God bless you and your family.

Willie

p.s. here is a little something to entertain your spirit

Burning the Midnight Oil

     I have so much respect for people who attend college or graduate school while working full-time jobs and taking care of their families.  It's amazing what some people go through in this life to reinvent themselves or just to make it to another level.  It's 1:19 AM and I'm just finishing the first three pages of a six to seven page paper for my Pastoral Caregiver class at Ohio Christian University.  So far so good.  I'm making steady progress as time passes each day.  In the midst of doing my school work I am running a booking agency for clean and Christian Comedians, doing shows as they come, being a husband, and taking care of my wife and elderly mother.  I give all of the glory to God.  I could not do any of this without God.  I'm already looking back on some of my hurdles saying how in the world did I overcome that?  But God as Isaac Caree says in his song.  My mom went into the hospital just before Thanksgiving due to a UTI.  It effected her memory, balance, and stability.  She was really in a bad way there for minute.  When she left the hospital she came home and my wife and I had to do almost everything for her.  For a moment it was like having  an adult child.  But for the grace of God.  Thank you Jesus!  We were able to get her into the Westbury Health and Rehab Center in Conyers, GA.  She stayed there for three weeks and came home on Christmas Eve.

What a Christmas present!  My mother coming home was better than any gift that someone could have given me.  My wife prepared Christmas dinner for our combined family.  All of our children were present and we had a great time.  Christmas was much better than Thanksgiving.  The only turkey I had at Thanksgiving was what I used to make my spaghetti.  I ended up going to Golden Corral a week later to eat turkey, dressing, and cranberry sauce.

     Well I better turn in because we are on the Daniel Fast at Tabernacle of Praise, and we are suppose to be on the 6AM prayer call.  This will be the third day coming up.  Last night I did not sleep at all.  My stomach must have been talking to me.  Hunger and thinking kept me up all night long.  Some say that when you can't sleep that you should get up and pray.  Maybe that is a sign that God wants to talk to you.

Good morning and God bless.

Picture from the set of "Willie Brown and Friends Gospel Comedy Live" Television Show.  You can watch our shows on our website at www.cleancomedyclinic.com.  Just go there and allow the video to start up by itself.  I think you'll like it.  Let me know what you think.  It's our effort to produce wholesome family programming.