February 3, 2026 – BHM

When I was about six years old, standing in the yard with my mother, while I can’t remember what was going on at the time, or what I had said or done, but I remember clearly her saying to me,

“Adam, you know what’s right.
No matter what’s going on.
No matter who’s around you.
You know what’s right.”

As a young man, I resented her words. They haunted me—returning at the most inopportune moments, interrupting my mischief.

As I grew up, however, I began to appreciate her words. And as I’ve grown older, I feel the full weight of her words. Way back then, Sarah Nell was speaking words that would one day give—and save—my life.

I can hear the voice of the Spirit in her words…

We must not lose our souls.
We must not yield to easy assimilation masquerading as integration.
We must not surrender our distinction.
We must not allow frustration to become despair—
despair that tempts us to collude with the powerful.
We must not mimic their ways.
We must preserve our integrity.

With justice and reconciliation as our goal,
and love as our sole motivation—
joy, creativity, resilience, compassion:
these are our weapons.
This is our protest.

I say to you—brothers and sisters, men and women of faith:

We know what’s right.
No matter what’s going on.
No matter who’s around us.
We know what’s right!

We know what’s right. Now let’s get to it.

He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the LORD require of you,
But to do justly,
To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,
just adam