H. Steven Sims

Alex Pretti, nurse, VA researcher, American cltizen, executed by US Government in broad daylight, Jan. 24, 2026. I doubt we will hear from those who so often speak about the Second Amendment about how this man was executed for exercising that right. Rest in Power.

Fear has always been used to motivate the masses, but just like young Balck boys are so often portrayed as threats to be neutralized, we must all take notice of the scheme to suggest that a 5 year old of Meso-American descent is treated like a criminal.

Going after the worst of the worst??

I will keep singing to remind myself of joy in a world where being scared when you are surrounded is justification for killing you…

Fall baking. Sweet potato pound cake

Viola Ford Fletcher, one of last survivors of Tulsa race massacre, dies aged 111 Fletcher spent years pushing for justice after deadly racial attack on thriving Black Oklahoma community in 1921

She did not live to see justice

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The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 A shocking coup was executed Wilmington, North Carolina.

Today is a day to remember

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I want to believe there is a strategy, but it feels like we were finally pushing back and our representatives caved. I still prefer them to the alternative, but we deserve better…

Matthew 22:39 The second most important commandment is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’ | Good News Bible (British Version) 2017 (GNBUK) | Download The Bible App Now The second most important commandment is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’

“The second most important commandment is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭22‬:‭39‬ ‭GNBUK‬‬

Some people don’t know how to love their neighbors because they have forgotten how to love themselves. Supremacy can do that to people…

I researched an effort from 2020 to help with food insecurity. Does anyone know what this mega church is doing to help with the current crisis created by Trump’s choices?

There is a photo of Navajo baby giggling. The Navajo celebrate the first laughter as the child’s entrance into the social world.

This is such a wonderful idea. It is a shame that the original immigrants/ colonists suppressed the culture of the indigenous inhabitants

There is a photo of a young Bob Fletcher and another photo of him later in life. We remember him for doing the right thing even when it wasn’t popular. He protected the farms of Japanese citizens when they were interned by the government. He paid their taxes and mortgages and protected their land

At the time, Bob Fletcher knew that the narrative about “national security” was allowing people to steal land and profits. He knew what was right.

News outlets keep suggesting that the Democrats may appear soft on crime if they oppose Trump occupying cities, but no one in suggesting that pardoning convicted criminals and them giving them jobs in the Department of Justice isn’t really being tough on crime…

“Like those who would mock a cripple, they glared at me with hate. How much longer, Lord, will you just look on? Rescue me from their attacks; save my life from these lions!”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭35‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭GNBUK‬‬

Who mocked a person with different abilities??

I won medals in band as a high school player. Memories

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“Doomed is the man who builds his house by injustice and enlarges it by dishonesty; who makes his countrymen work for nothing and does not pay their wages.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭22‬:‭13‬ ‭GNBUK‬‬

Maybe the attempt to erase the history of exploiting labor is dooming the “greatness” again…

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“For My people are stupid and foolish,” [says the Lord to Jeremiah]; “They do not know Me; They are foolish children And have no understanding. They are shrewd [enough] to do evil, But they do not know [how] to do good.””
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭4‬:‭22‬ ‭AMP‬‬

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““The kind of fasting I want is this: remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free. Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear…
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭58‬:‭6‬-‭8‬ ‭GNBUK‬

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“The Sovereign LORD, who has brought his people Israel home from exile, has promised that he will bring still other people to join them.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭56‬:‭8‬ ‭GNBUK‬‬

“If you have not been assigned DHS space, please report to the closest DHS facility, and ask if they have space for you to work until a final agreement between components can be reached,”

So, the Trump administration forces people to work on site, but they don’t know if they have the space…

“The LORD Almighty will bring them crashing down like branches cut off a tree. The proudest and highest of them will be cut down and humiliated.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭10‬:‭33‬ ‭GNBUK‬‬

On Tuesday of Holy Week, Jesus set the example of teaching. The prophetic words of Isaiah provide the lesson for today with President Garber giving a current, tangible example.
#faith #lesson #teaching #tuesday

“with these instructions: “Go to the village there ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied up with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to me. And if anyone says anything, tell him, ‘The Master needs them’; and then he will let them go at once.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭21‬:‭2‬-‭3‬ ‭

We have to remember that Harriet Scott filed her own suit against Irene Emerson…

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“Its officials are like roaring lions; its judges are like hungry wolves, too greedy to leave a bone until morning. The prophets are irresponsible and treacherous; the priests defile what is sacred, and twist the law of God to their own advantage.
‭‭Zephaniah‬ ‭3‬:‭3‬-‭4 GNBUK‬‬

This is how we earned it…#DEI #definitelyearnedit #defiantlyearnedit

Saturday morning observation, the people who trumpet the argument that “race doesn’t matter” are also the most likely to post a video featuring a non-White person espousing that position…

Still on a reading journey