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Please no disingenuously Sickening leader's stalwarts I am weak physically but intrinsically precariously bound in our earth's democratization with union of people who are already vulnerable in our democracy of America society agreements with the United States of America beholden to ALL CREATION MWE HAVE BUILT-UP COLLECTIONS IN OUR CHORES THAT WE DELIGHT IN OUR UNIVERSE PROMISES πŸ’™ TO SURVIVE IN DEFENSE OF MY LIFE'S PURPOSE FOR HUMANITY PURPOSES TO SHARE OUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES WITH WHOMEVER IS LISTENING AS EXPLICITLY ENGINEERED IN MY REFLECTIONS πŸ˜” IS THE πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ™Œ ✨️ πŸ™ πŸ’™ IN DUTIES TO πŸ’™ THE WORLD 🌎 WIDE VESSEL'S FINITE BREATHS LEFT TO SHARE THE GOODNESS IN OUR UNIVERSE IN THE DARKNESS OF REVENGE AND SPITE LUSTING FLESH CALCULATED BY BANAL WHITE CHRISTIANS NATIONALISTS BARBARIANS INCELS DELUSIONAL HYPOCRITICAL IRONICAL POSITIONS IN LEADERSHIP FEIGNED REASONING UNDERLYING ELECTED OFFICIALS STOTASTIC TERRORISTS ASTONISHING INTERNATIONAL MEDIA PUPPETS GAMES PLACATING EVIL TO CONFUSE AND MISLEAD US CITIZENS AND TROOPS AND CITIZENS GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES BUILT BY THE WORD'S OF OUR AMERICAN CITIZENS LIVES PROTECTIONS 😒IN A SOLEMN PROMISE EVIL 😈 CULTIVATION IN THE SOMBER DEEP BETRAYALS πŸ’™ I REQUESTING FOR ALL FREEDMAN AND KNOWLEDGE THAT REVEALED UNION NEVER EVER MATERIALIZED FACTLESS FOX INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS CORRUPTION NOW VISABLE TRAINED GASLIGHTING DISTRACTIONS PURPOSEFULLY KEEPING YOU FROM EVIDENTIARY CALMLY STARKLY RELIEFS TOGETHER WITH WHOMEVER IS LISTENING AS ANCESTORS COLLECTIVELY EXZAULTING BASICS COMMUNIONS OF OUR SUFFERING AND SURVIVING TRUTH UNFETTERED THE WORLD 🌎 PEACE BY LITERAL WORD'S DEFINED IN OUR ANNALS OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE TO INFORM OUR EARTHLINGS VILLAGERS VILLAINIZING LAWFUL LEADERS CAN FINALLY DISCERN FROM EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS BY OUR HIGHER PURPOSE STORED IN MY MEMORIES LIFTING MY WEAKENED VESSELS EXZAULTING TRUTH I KNEW AT 8-12 YEARS OLD OUR VERY MOMENT OF PROFOUND REALITY IN LIFE OF GRACE'S PURPOSE. MARTIN AND JAMES BALDWIN ARE INTRACONNECTED IN THE DARKNESS OF GRACE'S PURPOSE IN MY FREEWILL WITH TRUTH I CARRIED OUT MY MEMORIES LIFTING MY MOLESTED WEAKENED STRANGLED BEATEN FLESH SURVIVAL TOGETHER WITH RECOGNIZING THE NEED FOR ALL DEFENDERS SACRIFICED BREATHS LEFT IN MY DUTIES IN FLESH ON EARTH YOUR SOLEMN CONTEMPLATION IS HERE TO PROVIDE GUARANTEED PUBLIC TRUST IN OUR CHORES TO HELP COLLECTIVELY GROW IN DATA FROM TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE OF WORD'S LITERAL SIMPLEST TERMS EVILDOERS PUSHED ABSURDITIES TO COMMIT ATROCITIES TO RUSH SATAN'S SIRENS 🚨 PUSHING US WEAKENS TO SUBMIT. THIS UNIVERSE IS LISTENING 🎢 ✨️ πŸ™Œ GIFT 🎁 ✨️ SENTIENT INFORMED CITIZENTRY EXPLICITLY VISERCIALLY BORN IN THIS VESSEL'S ATTRITION GROWS. πŸ˜…VESSEL'S FINITE BREATHS LEFT WITH PURE CONTRITION FOR YOUR PRESENCE IN MY MEMORIES IN ✨️ OUR ANNALS THAT WE RESIST REFLECTING ON πŸ˜” SILENT REVERIE AWAKENING THESE MOMENTOUS BREATHS REQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY REFLECTIONS. I TRUSTED YOU TO THRIVE IN DEFENSE OF ALL BREATHING BRAINS SURVIVAL MODE TOGETHER WITH RECOGNIZING HISTORICALLY ACCURATE DATA FROM EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS BY OUR HIGHER PURPOSE IN BREATH SURVIVAL MODE TOGETHER ROWING IN TANDEM ETERNALLY LIKE DANCING πŸ’ƒ πŸ˜„. THIS VESSEL'S SUSTAINABILITY IS WORTHY TO SPEAK JUSTLY DELIGHTS 😊 IN OUR CHORES THAT MWE CONSTITUENTS FOUNDATION AMERICAN TREASONOUS TRAITOROUS TERRORISTIC CONFEDERATE LOSERS FEDERALIST SOCIETY SOUTHERN STRATAGY TO ASSULT MY LORD PROMISED I COULD SEE πŸ‘€ AND I SEE πŸ‘€ PEACE ✌️ MEANT FOR EVERY SINGLE BREATH SURVIVAL TOGETHER WITH TRUTH AND GRACE'S PURPOSE WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR TRUTH UNFETTERED HEALS ALWAYS ALL CHAOS IMMEDIATELY WHEN REVEALED TO ALL CREATION IN GOOD-FAITH STANDARDS LINGUISTICALLY SIMPLE RECONCILED DEFINITIVE ADHERENTS TO COMMUNICATIVE PROCESS FOR GENERATIONS TO CHOSE TRUTH OVER POWER PETULANCING LEADERSHIPS BAD-FAITH STATES LEADERSHIPS DUPLICITOUS POSITIONS NEED TRIAGE DISCERNED REALITY-BASED CALM REFLECTIONS OF SUFFERING AND SURVIVING WISDOM DELIGHT MY WEAKENED VESSELS GATHERED REALITY-BASED PURPOSE NOW!!!! DEFENDERS OF TRUTH DIED ON EARTH 🌎 ROTATIONS MY BLACK MOMMAS EYE'S LOVE PROTECTED MY EVERY PURPOSE. NOW VISABLE TRAINED EVILESTS WILL STOKE YOU. DICTIONARIES WORD'S LITERAL SIMPLEST TERMS WRITTEN EVERYWHERE IF MWE NOTICE OUR FLESHES WEAKNESSES INSTEAD OF OUR MIRACULOUSLY DESIGNED BREATHING FREELY HUMAN BEINGS BRAIN'S POWER πŸ”‹ TO SURVIVE IN DEFENSE OF ALL TRUTH UNFETTERED HEALS ALL CHAOS IS ANSWERED BY OUR HIGHER STANDARDS LINGUISTICALLY ACCURATE SIMPLE RECONCILED DEFINITIVE ADHERENTS TO COMMUNICATIVE PROCESS FOR ALL BRANCHES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CITIZENS GOVERNMENT CONSTITUTION FOR ALL CITIZENS PROTECTIONS FROM ALL ENIMIES FOREIGN AND ESPECIALLY DOMESTIC TERRORIST CONSERVATIVES PETULANCE PLACATING EVIL UNEQUIVOCALLY TO END DEMOCRACY ONCE AND FOR ALL AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN FREEWILL SILENCED OUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES FINITE BREATHS LEFT IN MY EXSITENCE IN MY DUTIES IN OUR DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS SACRIFICED FOR ALL CIVILIZATIONS TO SURVIVE IN DEFENSE OF ALL BREATHING BRAINS SURVIVAL MODE TOGETHER WITH RECOGNIZING HISTORICALLY ACCURATE DATA IS CONSTANTLY GRACING ME.

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No mission 😒 ever again 😒 I am so weak physically but faithfully SAVING MY mind to relieve you from my inclination incompatible with PETULANCING LEADERSHIPS DELIBERATELY FEIGNING 4TH ESTATE FACTLESS FOX STOTASTIC TERRORISTS ASTONISHING INTERNATIONAL MEDIA corporations against REALITY by your pity forcing us to pick them, which has been amended times in my imperfect uneducated weakened glorious memories with breath you have survived tragedy in your sensibility life with authentic lived simple imperfect freewill with TRUTH UNFETTERED THE world 🌎 wide open human beings imperfections REVEALING basic principles and tenants of wisdom and virtue of the United States of America beholden the world 🌎 πŸ’™ I WAS BREATHING in GRACE'S PURPOSE STORED IN MY MEMORIES LIFTING MY WEAKENED VESSELS EXZAULTING TRUTH IN GRACE'S PURPOSE FOR HUMANITY PURPOSES TO SHARE OUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES WITH WHOMEVER IS LISTENING is my shepherd and present circumstances of my hands βœ‹οΈ feet and feet and knowledge πŸ’™ ❀️ πŸ’œ πŸŽ‰is πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ™Œ ✨️ PSALMS AND PROVERBS LAWS LITERALLY LITERALLY SAVED MY cadences from my reflections πŸ˜” I finally understand why my creator didn't want me to read until I was finally strong in Triage discerned reality-based calm THINKING WITH constitution dictionaries PSALMS AND PROVERBS LAWS πŸ’™ in duties and oaths to be informed citizenry flows continuously reflecting πŸ˜” SILENT REVERIE AWAKENING DURING CONTROL Dramas The power πŸ”‹ within πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ our lives protections in reasoning and words defined by our divine GRACE'S patients who confessions building the foundation for living in a PUBLIC INTEGRITY environment and relationship with sentient BREATH SURVIVAL MODE TOGETHER WITH RECOGNIZING HISTORICALLY ACCURATE DATA FROM EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR PRESENCE i never doubted you would never ever submit to ATTRITION for humanity purposes to REVERSE knowledge or grow?

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Betrayals. Can't find truth by our constitutionality REQUIREMENTS to be informed of our miraculously designed autonomously and automatically designed breathing in our lives of breath survival in our lives of glorious painful confusion leader's enjoined IMPUNITY TO mislead and silence πŸ”• our grace's purpose 😒 is πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ™Œ ✨️ sentient BREATH SURVIVAL MODE LITERAL WORD'S DEFINED by our divine GRACE'S PURPOSE FOR HUMANITY PURPOSES TO SHARE OUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES finite breaths left conning our humanity purposes with public abuses even in our grace's purpose for humanity purposes to share our thoughts and experiences with our CHILDREN'S HELL refusing to SIT in our democracy of America society agreements 🀝 PETULANCE fleshes weaknesses woefully stroking their fleshes delusional petulant white rich men's fragility ego's game's earth's democratization demise in our annals that miraculously evolutionary is so hard to predict the future of our American Venable in this universe feigning 4th estate factless entertainment services for all STOTASTIC TERRORISTS international Republicans conservatives GOP'S LAWYERS PRACTICE ERASING REASONING UNDER OATH TO PROTECT themselves against truth tagged with confessions authentically projected Putin’s money πŸ’° πŸ€‘ πŸ’Έ Autocracy trained MIND-DRILLING HUMAN BEINGS BRAIN'S POWER πŸ”‹ WITHIN OUR IMPERFECT UNEDUCATED HUMBLE EMPATHETIC WEAKENING VESSEL'S SUSTAINABILITY IS EASY to understand in terms written in rejoice in GRACE'S PURPOSE STORED IN MY REFLECTIONS I SAW πŸ‘€ IN PSALMS AND PROVERBS FAITHFUL DELIVERS SENTIENCE OF LIFE with authentic lived simple uneducated weakened vessels GATHERED sustained miracle intrinsically precariously bound to make sure Nazis confederate losers REVENGE on earth's democratization IS not complicated anymore because HITLER’S ADVANCE REPEATS TODAY BY OUR POLITICAL petulance fleshes weaknesses woefully stroking their fleshes delusional petulant white Christian ✝️ FRONT NATIONALISTS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC ANTI-REPUBLIC ANTI-EVIDENCE ANTI-TRUTH STOKING YOUR SOLEMN CONTEMPLATION away from your requirements to be informed πŸ™„ FREEWILL WITH TRUTH BY OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DEFENSES must breakthrough community's blocked CITIZENS PROTECTIONS USA.GOV FAILED BUT CLARITY ON EARTH'S ROTATIONS IN OUR CHORES TO ENSURE TRIAGE DISCERNED REALITY-BASED CALM REFLECTIONS OF SUFFERING AND SURVIVING TRUTH IN GRACE'S PURPOSE FOR HUMANITY PURPOSES TO SHARE OUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES FINITE BREATHS LEFT IN OUR EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS FOR ELEMENTS OF WORD'S SIMPLEST TERMS ENLIGHTENMENT GATHERED TOGETHER WITH TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE OF WORD'S LITERAL SIMPLEST TERMS EVILDOERS REVEALED BURNING πŸ”₯ MY BELOVED BLACK MOMMAS EYE'S LOVE WITHOUT A SOLEMN CONTEMPLATION I REJOICE IN MY DUTIES TO FAITHFULLY COLLECTIVELY GATHER FOR ALL DEFENDERS SACRIFICED BREATHS LEFT IN MY DUTIES TO FAITHFULLY REFLECT ON MY IMPERFECT UNEDUCATED HUMBLE EMPATHETIC WEAKENING VESSEL'S FINITE BREATHS REQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY REFLECTIONS OUR DEMOCRACY ENFORCING EVERY SINGLE BREATH OF THE UNITED STATES πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ OF AMERICA CITIZENS πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ CITIZENS PROTECTIONS USA.GOV EVIDENCE FORCE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE OF THESE MOMENTOUS WORD'S LITERAL SCIENCE-BASED CONSENTED INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DEFINITIVE ADHERENTS TO ENFORCEMENT REGULATIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY DAILY GRACE'S PURPOSE STORED IN OUR UNIVERSE COLLECTIVELY CALMLY STARKLY RELIEFS TOGETHER WITH WHOMEVER IS LISTENING AS EXPLICITLY VISERCIALLY BORN IN THIS SWEET MADNESS OH THIS GLORIOUS SADNESS THAT BRINGS ME TO MY KNEES IN GRACE'S PURPOSE STORED FROM OUR 1ST BREATH UNTIL THE LAST BREATH LAW ENFORCEMENT OF OUR SILENT REVERIE AWAKENING IS NOT POLITICS OR RELIGION OR MONEY IT'S REALLY UNDESCRIBABLE πŸ˜‰ TO BE πŸ”‹ IN OUR 46TH PRESIDENT OF THESE MOMENTOUS WORD'S I HAVE NEVER DOUBTED IN OUR AWAKEN VESSEL'S ATTRITION SEPARATES GROWN ADOLESCENTS ADULTS IN OUR CHORES TO ENSURE OUR SUCCESS πŸ™Œ IN FAITH TOWARDS THE LIGHTS AND THE ENDLESSNESS THAT YOU FEAR YOU ARE PULLED FROM THE WRECKAGE OF OUR SILENT REVERIE AWAKENING THESE MOMENTOUS BREATHS LEFT WITH PURE CONTRITION IN OUR UNIVERSE COLLECTIVELY CALMLY STARKLY RELIEFS TOGETHER IS RECONCILED IN MY LIFE IN BREATH SURVIVAL MODE LITERAL WORD'S MEANINGS SHARED IN CLARITY OUR BRAINS 🧠 SURVIVALMODETO TO BREATHE FREELY IN FREEWILL ANYWHERE ANYTIME IN STRIKINGLY INTROSPECTIVE BETRAYALS FOR HUMANITY'S VILE DEEP-STATE'S CONSERVATIVES CATHOLIC VATICAN LEADERS πŸ‡»πŸ‡¦ IS A πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ™Œ ✨️ πŸ™ GLORIOUS PAINFUL SUFFERING AND SURVIVING YEARS IN MY BLACK MOMMAS EYE'S LOVE WITHOUT A SINGLE SPOKEN WORD IS MY SHEPHERD FOR ALL CIVILIZATIONS TO HEAR YOUR SOLEMN CONTEMPLATION IS VISABLE FOR YOU TODAY TO SURVIVE IN DEFENSE OF TRUTH IS EVERYWHERE FINALLY ARRIVED AS MY LORD PROMISED I COULD SEE πŸ‘€ AND I SEE πŸ‘€ PEACE IN OUR CHORES TO ENSURE OUR SUCCESS πŸ™Œ IN FAITH TOWARDS GOD/CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE HAS BEEN RELEASED. THANK YOU MY LORD FOR EDUCATING MY DESIGNED BREATHING BRAINS 🧠 POWER TO SURVIVE IN DEFENSE OF ALL BREATHING BRAINS SURVIVAL MODE TOGETHER WITH RECOGNIZING HISTORICALLY ACCURATE DATA FROM EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS BY THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL OF ALL MY BREATHS SUSTAINING IN OUR UNIVERSE PROMISES ENLIGHTENMENT NOW VISABLE AND VISERCIALLY TAUGHT ME LOGICALLY IS THE NECESSARY CONDITION OF MY LIFE'S ENGLISH WORD'S LITERAL SIMPLEST TERMS OUR ANCESTORS IMPERFECT HUMAN NATURE IS NOT POLITICS OR RELIGION OR MONEY IT'S WORTH MY LIFE WITH AUTHENTIC REPUBLIC DUTIES TO FAITHFULLY COLLECTIVELY GATHER MY THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES FINITE BREATHS LEFT WITH PURE POWER πŸ”‹ EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS EVIL 😈 WHISPERS HIDES TRUTH NO MORE!!!!

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The King Rejoices in the LORD’s Strength

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1 O LORD, in your strength the king rejoices,

and in your salvation how greatly he exults!

2 You have given him his heart’s desire

and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

3 For you meet him with rich blessings;

you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

4 He asked life of you; you gave it to him,

length of days forever and ever.

5 His glory is great through your salvation;

splendor and majesty you bestow on him.

6 For you make him most blessed forever;[fn]

you make him glad with the joy of your presence.

7 For the king trusts in the LORD,

and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.

8 Your hand will find out all your enemies;

your right hand will find out those who hate you.

9 You will make them as a blazing oven

when you appear.

The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath,

and fire will consume them.

10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth,

and their offspring from among the children of man.

11 Though they plan evil against you,

though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

12 For you will put them to flight;

you will aim at their faces with your bows.

13 Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength!

We will sing and praise your power.

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The LORD Is My Shepherd

A Psalm of David.

1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 He makes me lie down in green pastures.

He leads me beside still waters.[fn]

3 He restores my soul.

He leads me in paths of righteousness[fn]

for his name’s sake.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,[fn]

I will fear no evil,

for you are with me;

your rod and your staff,

they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me

in the presence of my enemies;

you anoint my head with oil;

my cup overflows.

6 Surely[fn] goodness and mercy[fn] shall follow me

all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell[fn] in the house of the LORD

forever.[fn

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Reverberated in my imperfect uneducated weakened vessels purpose for humanity purposes to share our thoughts and experiences with our CHILDREN'S HELL REPUBLICANS CONSERVATIVES RNC HERITAGE FOUNDATION FOR GINNY THOMAS'S FEDERALIST SOCIETY SOUTHERN STRATAGY TO END DEMOCRACY ONCE AND FOR ALL CIVILIZATIONS OATHS EXPRESSED INTEREST IN UNION NEVER EVER MATERIALIZED AS WARNED ⚠️ IGNORED NO MORE. PETULANCING FLESH PUSHING US TROOPS AND CITIZENS will be forced by their anti-democratic anti-republic ANTI-AMERICAN ANTI-CHISTIAN ANTI-GOVERNMENT ANTI-DEMOCRATIC ANTI-REPUBLIC ANTI-EVIDENCE ANTI-TRUTH LYING JESTERS CYNICISM OUR FOUNDING FATHER'S DESCRIBES THE enlightenment of their lives in freewilled explicit implicit in our DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS SACRIFICED BREATH SURVIVAL TOGETHER ROWING IN TANDEM ETERNALLY TOWARDS OUR BRAINS SURVIVAL MODE TOGETHER WITH RECOGNIZING HISTORICALLY ACCURATE DATA FROM EVIDENTIARY REQUIREMENTS BY OUR HIGHER INTELLIGENCE OF FAITH IN OUR ABILITIES TO breathe freely in freewill with TRUTH and evidence PETULANCING LEADERSHIPS repealed our CONSTITUTION structure Branches Chambers Bicameral Executive adherents to communicative stalwarts in our annals of flesh in sustained miracle in our lives of glorious painful confusion leader's enjoined IMPUNITY is visible and VISERCIALLY ABHORRENTLY DENIED BY OUR DIVINE THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES finite breaths left in our grace's purpose for humanity purposes to reconcile this EXsitence in glorious painful breath survival together with truth unfettered HEALS always all chaos calming πŸ˜‰ REPEATEDLY arrive in our democracy is finally faithfully witnessing truths everywhere in our annals that will allow you to be your best πŸ₯° OUR FAREWELL ADDRESS SEPTEMBER IS CREATION MWE SHALL NOT FEAR TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE OF WORD'S LITERAL SIMPLEST TERMS EVILDOERS PUSHED ABSURDITIES TO COMMIT ATROCITIES TO RUSH SATAN'S SIRENS AND THEN YOU WILL REGAIN YOUR SOLEMN CONTEMPLATION IS HERE FOR MORE THAN TRUTH AND evidence PETULANCING LEADERSHIPS DELIBERATELY ADHERING TO betrayals dies.

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The Sound of Silence

Song by Simon & Garfunkel

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Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a street lamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never share

No one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I, "You do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms that I might reach you"

But my words like silent raindrops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out its warning

In the words that it was forming

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls

And whispered in the sounds of silence"

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Songwriters: Paul Simon

The Sound of Silence lyrics Β© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

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JUNE 4, 2018 BY GUEST

Biblical Justice & Social Justice

By Christine Erickson, Director, Children-at-Risk β€œOneLess” Ministry Grace Church – Eden Prairie, MN

Biblical Justice & Social Justice

Is there a difference?

Selling a human being. Abusing a child. Stealing from a widow. Most, if not all of us, would agree that using force or fraud to exploit the vulnerable is evil. We carry within us an innate sense of right and wrong, a conviction that oppressors should be punished and the weak protected. We want justice.

Justice in its simplest form, means to set things right. Yet, how do we know what is right? Who defines β€œright”? Is it society-at-large or the culture we live in? Is there a moral law that we inherently know to follow?

BIBLICAL JUSTICE

As Christ-followers, the answer is simple. Our sense of justice is imparted to us by our Creator God. He is loving, kind, and merciful and He is also righteous, holy, and just.

β€œThe Rock, His work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4).

β€œRighteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.” (Psalm 89:14).

God is just. It is part of His character, which means He is always just. He cannot be unjust, and He defines and sets the standard for justice.

We hear that God is love and God is holy more often than we hear that God is just. And we may readily agree that God sets the standard for love and holiness, but do we understand that He also sets the standard for justice? Pursuing biblical justice means we follow God’s way to make right that which is wrong, and we look to Scripture to define what is β€œright”.

We do not have to look far to see that Jesus is our standard of righteousness. Jesus Christ lived a perfect, sinless life, died a sacrificial death and rose again to make right that which was wrong. It is because of Jesus and His work on the Cross that we can be justified and made right with God. And Jesus also demonstrates a beautiful example for us to follow in the New Testament as one who cared for the outcast and reached out with compassion to help those most often overlooked. Jesus pursued justice. He physically and spiritually rescued those in need. Healing the leper in Matthew 8 and caring for the woman caught in adultery in John 8 are just a few examples.

As we look at the life of Jesus and the mandate given throughout Scripture, it is clear that Christ-followers are called to β€œdo justice”. We are called to take action and confront evil, to care for the vulnerable, and to make right that which is wrong. This mandate is not new. It is not a cultural fad or something that is simply a trend in today’s society. Throughout the Old and New Testament, our call to do justice is clear.

β€œGive justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute,” (Psalm 82:3).

β€œLearn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, and please the widow’s cause,” (Isaiah 1:17).

β€œHe has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8).

β€œBut woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others,” (Luke 11:42).

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Social justice is a common term used today. A brief online search will uncover varying definitions of what it means. One definition says social justice is β€œpromoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity”. On one hand that sounds fine, but looking deeper, it is rather vague and can lead to many different conclusions about what justice really looks like.

In contrast to social justice, which focuses on a temporal view of addressing injustices in society, biblical justice starts with the eternal in mind. It starts by seeing people as God sees them – recognizing that we are all created in the image of God. And it is incumbent upon Christ-followers to pursue physical and spiritual freedom for the oppressed so others can also become what God created them to be. If we have experienced freedom, how can we not pursue freedom on behalf of others?

As the Church, we may partner with those doing the work of social justice in our communities, but let us not be confused about our ultimate mission. Our mission is not about picking up another cause because it sounds appealing and makes us look good. Our mission is about fully embracing the cause of Christ. The end goal of biblical justice is seeing lives reconciled to God and eternally transformed.

What can we do?

One day there will be perfect justice, carried out by a perfectly holy and just God. In the meantime, evil is pervasive throughout our world. Children are sold into sex slavery. The poor are beaten and forced to work without pay. Human trafficking or modern-day slavery continues in every country, city, and community. There are more than 35 million slaves in the world today, more than at any other time in history.

Can we, the Church, lead the way and pursue justice on behalf of the oppressed, the widow, the orphan, and the enslaved? If we know the One who is completely just, should we not lead the charge? YES!

Fueled by the compassion of Christ, we engage in issues of injustice – protecting the vulnerable, fighting for those held in oppression, walking alongside the wounded and pointing them to the One who heals, restores and redeems.

Pursuing justice starts and continues with a foundation of prayer, because we know it is His battle not our own. It involves time and sacrifice. It means stepping out of our comfort zone and persevering with patience. It means walking in wisdom and not jumping in haphazardly or foolishly. Our just God leads and we follow as He empowers us through the Holy Spirit. So, let’s go. Let’s engage in the fight for biblical justice.

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The October 7th Massacre

1,194+

Murdered

134

Kidnapped

114

Kidnap Survivors

4,834+

Injured

On the morning of October 7, 2023, Hamas led a simultaneous wave of assaults on Israeli civilian communities and military posts. The dawn attack began when Hamas launched over 5,000 rockets from Gaza into Israel, then used these strategic barrages as cover to breach the border. In this massive surprise onslaught on southern Israel, Hamas terrorists committed unfathomable atrocities, including widespread sexual violence against women, that have reverberated globally.

The attacks claimed the lives of more than 1,194 individuals, with 800 of the bodies confirmed as civilians. They left over 4,834 people wounded and resulted in more than 243 being taken hostage. Additionally, some bodies remain unidentified due to substantial mutilation.

Since October 7th, at least 21 hostages were murdered by Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, 3 hostages were released by the IDF, and 111 hostages were released in negotiations. 30 kidnap survivor women have endured sexual abuse by their captors. 134 people are still being held hostage, about 30 of them are dead, and their bodies remain captive.

Use this interactive map to visit the attack sites, learn the facts, and view the horrors.

Disclaimer: Please note this is a project in progress and our data is constantly being updated. If you have additional information, please share it with us.

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How does a patient πŸ€” SURRENDERING to revenge and spite of false narratives against truth tagged with Supreme Court’s mission πŸ€” not reflect absurdity?

Photo: Containers holding frozen embryos and sperm are stored in liquid nitrogen at a fertility clinic in Fort Myers, Fla.

β€œThis decision, without any action on the part of the Alabama legislature, will make it much harder for people to make choices about discarding the frozen embryosβ€”which, to be clear, are just a mass of cells,” says Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at BU School of Law and codirector of the University’s Program on Reproductive Justice. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File

ALABAMA COURT RULING

Alabama Court Ruling That Frozen Embryos Are Children and Its Impact on the Future of IVF Treatment

Court’s recent decision β€œmay influence other state supreme courts,” says LAW’s Nicole Huberfeld

February 22, 2024

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Molly Callahan

When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered children and that people can be held legally responsible for destroying them, the decision reverberated across the country. It was also a decision that could have a widespread chilling effect on the use of fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), says Boston University School of Law Professor Nicole Huberfeld.

The decision, released Friday, February 16, stems from an unusual set of cases, says Huberfeld, the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law and codirector of the University’s Program on Reproductive Justice. The ruling follows two lawsuits filed by three sets of parents who underwent IVF procedures to have babies and then opted to have the remaining embryos frozen.

They allege that in 2020, a patient at the Mobile, Ala., hospital where the frozen embryos were being stored, walked into the fertility clinic through an β€œunsecured doorway” and removed several embryos from the cryogenic nursery, the state’s Supreme Court ruling said. The patient’s hand was β€œfreeze-burned” by the extremely low temperatures the embryos were stored at, and the patient dropped the containers on the floor, destroying the embryos within, according to the ruling.

The parents sued for wrongful death, a claim that a lower court initially rejected. The state Supreme Court’s stunning reversal holds that those frozen embryos were children, and they are covered under Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor law.

β€œThis decision, without any [intervening] action on the part of the Alabama legislature, will make it much harder for people to make choices about discarding the frozen embryosβ€”which, to be clear, are just a mass of cells,” Huberfeld says. β€œWe’re talking about something the size of a freckle.”

The wrongful death law this court’s decision rests on predates the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned half a century of precedent by ruling that the US Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. But Dobbs is not absent from the story here, Huberfeld saysβ€”the decision made highly restrictive abortion laws enforceable in their respective states. Before Dobbs, these laws were on the books, but unenforceable.

The court’s decision, rooted as it is in Alabama statute and its constitution, isn’t one that has a direct impact in any other state, Huberfeld says. But, with a handful of other states across the country that have laws on the books defining personhood as beginning at fertilization, it could set a precedent that others would follow.

β€œThis decision looks narrow, but it is actually a decision that may influence other state supreme courts that have similar language about fetal life and their constitutions and laws,” Huberfeld notes.

And indeed, the ruling is already casting a shadow over assisted reproductive procedures in Alabama. On Wednesday, the University of Alabama at Birmingham health systemβ€”the state’s largest hospital systemβ€”announced it would pause IVF treatments while hospital officials evaluate whether its patients undergoing IVF or doctors performing the treatments could face criminal charges or punitive damages. On Thursday, officials from two more healthcare facilities, Alabama Fertility Services and the Center for Reproductive Medicine at Mobile Infirmary, announced they would do the same.

IVF treatment is an emotionally and physically exhausting process by which multiple eggs are harvested from a person’s ovaries, fertilized with sperm externally, and implanted in the uterus to create a pregnancy. In most cases, doctors create more embryos than they implant; patients store those additional embryos in liquid nitrogen for future use, donation, or destruction.

β€œI think if we look backwards as to how that process works, [this decision] will probably make it harder for people to have successful IVF,” Huberfeld says. β€œIt is very difficult on the body to produce the eggs, and so people try not to do that more than one time. The goal is usually to extract more than one egg at a time. Now, people may be facing a situation in which they create fewer embryos or go through that process more than once.”

Nationally, just over 2 percent of infants are conceived using IVF or another type of assisted reproductive technology (ART), according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, about a quarter of all ART cycles resulted in a live birth, and about a half were β€œegg or embryo banking cycles,” in which all resulting eggs or embryos were frozen for future use.

Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling imperils those extra frozen embryos, as well as the people who choose IVF or other assisted fertilizationβ€”a population that’s disproportionately composed of same-sex couples and older people.

β€œA decision like this makes it harder for people who are already vulnerable to be able to access the care that they need to create families,” Huberfeld says.

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Blessings Amen

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---β€œPower of Two” song by Indigo Girls 1994

Now we're talking about a difficult thing

And your eyes are getting wet

I took us for better and I took us for worse

Don't you ever forget it

And now the steel bars

Now the steel bars between me and a promise

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The closer I am to free (free)

So we're okay

We're fine

Baby I'm here to stop your crying

Chase all the ghosts from your head

I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed

Smarter than the tricks played on your heart

We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart

Adding up the total of a love that's true

Multiply life by the power of two

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I saw them perform this song live on June 1st this year at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park NJ. It was incredible.

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Mary’s Crossing the line newsletter I dropped you two instrumentals same artist he’s all over you tube been following home since the 80’s

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