When we look to the past, it’s easy to see that people that wanted to control other people’s speech generally were not good people, and while they made it look like they had everyone’s best interest in mind, the reality was that they only cared about themselves and what they could gain from silencing people that didn’t agree with them.

Recently I heard from Melissa K Norris, a homesteading guru, that she had created a post a few years ago that she shares every year about this time on how to grow enough food from your garden to last a year. She recently posted this to Instagram, and while she has been very careful not share anything controversial, she had this post taken down twice. In her own words, “I share this information every single year, but this year I shared about my dad’s upbringing during the Great Depression and how, if they didn’t grow their own food and preserve it they would have gone hungry. But because of the skills his mom had, they never went hungry, and that’s why these skills are so important, even today.

For some reason, Instagram decided to take down not only my post but also my IG Story where I shared the link to the blog post.

Now, I tend to be very careful when it comes to “trigger” words that social media would remove. But never would I have thought that homesteading and growing your own food would trigger my post to be taken down.

This brings me to my next point of why it’s important to have access to information outside of social media and even blog posts where you can get teachings. . . We should all be able to hear information and then make decisions on where we stand on our own, never forced due to censorship.”

I couldn’t have said it better. I don’t know about you, but this is even more motivation for me to pray more (even for God’s grace to save the wicked men of our day), to continue to grow food for our family, and keep learning skills that have been long forgotten. Does this motivate you too? I would love to hear from you!

“Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.”

Heinrich Heine