Helen Walton "It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. Let's scatter the good things."  

“What does ‘scatter’ mean?” asks one of the youth as we sit in a booth in our usually fast food place.  They found this quote intriguing.

We look it up and find the words “to spread out, to distribute and to fling.”

“Let’s fling the good things,” laughs one of the native youth.  “That’s rap.”

With a little help from those more experience in rapping they came up with this,

“Bad things can happen,

That’s why we’re rapping.

It’s getting way too rough,

There’s too much kind of stuff

Roll it over we say,

Push the drama far away

But it stays real near,

And it grows more fear.

A drunk stumbles by

With smoky red eyes

Looks way past us

Not wanting a fuss

Then out of our deeps

Gather coins in a heap

Buy as much as we can

Take it out to the man

Takes the food we give

Say “we all gotta live.”

“Why you do this for me?”

As he looks where to flee.

“We all been cussed,”

We say in a rush.

"Now we grown,

We no longer moan."

‘Cause we’ve been seen

As blessed not mean

So we fling it around

From sky to ground.

We are blessed by the good thing

You are the good thing

We fling the good things

We fling the good things.

Take heart all those of you who still feel cursed and know not that God sees you as blessed.

In faith,

Kaze