I walk in my neighborhood every morning. A few weeks ago I saw a new sign in a neighbor\u2019s yard – \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d The next day, a sign appeared across the street – \u201cBrown Lives Matter.\u201d Then \u201cWhite Lives Matter,\u201d and finally the all-inclusive sign appeared in our diverse neighborhood \u2013 \u201cAll Lives Matter.\u201d As I drove out of my neighborhood, I saw a couple of interesting bummer stickers. On an old-model pick-up truck \u2013 \u201cRedneck Lives Matter,\u201d and on a late model Buick \u2013 \u201cOld Lives Matter.\u201d Last week I posted a \u201cHappy Juneteenth 2020\u201d note on my Facebook page with the comment \u201cCelebrating with some friends of mine.\u201d Juneteenth is an official Texas state holiday, celebrated annually on the 19th of June to commemorate the Union army general announcing federal orders in the city of Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, proclaiming that all slaves in Texas were now free. Most of my Facebook friends are Christians, however, some did not respond like it. Private messages were negative and hurtful. While obviously not all lives matter to all people, every life matters to God. The Bible is very direct, when it states, \u201cIf someone says, \u2018I love God,\u2019 and hates his brother, he is a liar\u201d (1 John 4:20). It matters how one responds to that verse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I walk in my neighborhood every morning. A few weeks ago I saw a new sign in a neighbor\u2019s yard – \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d The next day, a sign appeared across the street – \u201cBrown Lives Matter.\u201d Then \u201cWhite Lives Matter,\u201d and finally the all-inclusive sign appeared in our diverse neighborhood \u2013 \u201cAll Lives Matter.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}