25/01/2026
RIP, Alex Pretti, ICU nurse. I am first and foremost a mother of five amazing adults. I am also a Christian woman who believes in equality, love and kindness above everything.
I thought long and hard before posting this on my business page, but I don't have a personal Instagram page and I actually think this should be everyone’s business.
My anger and frustration at the terrible actions currently going on in the US and elsewhere under the leadership and with the approval of Donald Trump, has led one friend to tell me I am not a real Christian because of my socialist leanings.
Jesus displayed “righteous anger” several times in the Gospels, driven by love, justice, and zeal for God’s honour. His was directed at hard-heartedness, exploitation, religious hypocrisy, and the destruction caused by death. So am I wrong?
My God taught me to love my neighbour, not just the white ones or the conservative ones. I’m pretty sure he wants me to love the down-trodden, the immigrant and the displaced. He didn’t and doesn’t differentiate.
In the US, ICE agents are detaining people in the streets going about their daily business, whilst their faces are hidden behind scarves and masks. They look scary and intimidating, but they also appear hastily recruited, ill-trained and volatile.
Maybe this is the wrong platform, but I fear if we all say or do nothing, we are leaving the world to get on with its injustices unchecked. History tells us everything we need to know about what happens when we look away.
This morning whilst out walking my dog Daisy, this is the song that came through my ear pod. It seems little has changed sadly.
I stand with the many in the US as they protest and march against this awful regime that ignites hate and fear. It isn’t the first and it won’t be the last, but when will we learn?
There is some dispute about who actually did say this, it may have been Edmund Burke, it may not. Whoever the author, the words are no less important; “Evil happens when good men do nothing.”
I vote we don’t stay silent, not least because what’s happening there, could happen here too…