The other day, a collegue of mine asked me how I was called. There’s no simple way to tell this story. But I’m going to try to summerize in a way that helps to clarify the nature of my call, and what brings me to this moment.

In 2016, I had secured the nomination of the California State Green Party to run for US Senate. I had arrive at this opportunity after working with the McKinney/Clemente campaign in 2008 and the Honkala/Stein campaign in 2012. I’d just completed work on the US Social Forum, and had resigned from my position at Hip Hop Congress. While I was walking away from both of those situations disillusioned for a variety of different reasons, I felt like at least making one run for political office on a Green Party platform would bring my work to some reasonable conclusion. I was prepared to leave the moment for good, having arrived at the conlcusion that what were doing wasn’t working, wasn’t going to work and it was time to move to something else. I was a swinger, and porn fiend and I thought Christianity and White Supremecy were the same thing. I was also burned out, on drugs and reasonably out of control. So, no, I had no business running. But I did anyway. And somehow managed to secure the Green Party nomination.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some details of what happened next become public knowledge. Comes with the territory, I guess.

Before the run, I made an egregious, selfish and destructive decision, and I cheated on my partner. That decision led to a series of events that to this very day are very difficult to describe. Now, as I said, I was on drugs. So, if you would like discount my opinion from here, you are free to, however, here’s what you should know before you do that.

Everything that takes place on this planet takes place on this planet takes place in the sight of the LORD. Every. Single. Thing.

Yes, the People who are currently ‘in control’ have elaborate survellience networks and capabilities that you couldn’t imagine. But they’re just trying to copy who and what the LORD is by his very nature. And they are not HIM. Nor will they ever be HIM.

There is nothing that escapes his sight. Nothing. Not a whisper, not a blink, not a giggle. And certainly not a giant international conspiracy to undermine HIS Word and challenge the supremacy of his SON. So, if I’m making this up or speaking out of turn, may the LORD correct me as needed.

Returning to the story, I was planning to announce the run on MLK’s Birthday. And I was going to propose (figure that). Then a series of very strange events took place. Again, I’ll skip some of those details and leave it to the enemy to decide if he’d like to share. What matters for this story is that I was hacked, identity thefted, followed, gangstalked and this weird thing happened that would take a very long time to describe, so I’ll summerize it this way:

The internet gave the appearence of being alive.

As I said, a lot of other strange things took place, but that’s what matters here. I was terrified. Absolutley scared out of my mind. And then a voice, kind of out of nowhere, in the middle of this chaos that went on for well over a month said to me:

“If you want to understand what’s happening to you, read the Bible.”

So, I did. Well, I started to anyway.

And that, in a nutshell, was how I was saved.

It was not a missionary.

It was not a church, or a pastor, or a friend, or a relative.

It did not come when I was clean, or sober or clear minded.

It did not all happen in one day. In fact, it’s still happening.

But with the LORD as my witness, that is how it happened.

May the LORD have mercy on us all.