Stephen Clark

A Catholic Scientist from Manchester (UK) currently living in the Philippines. Co-Founder of a small charity group in the UK:- Medjugorje International Relief. My joy is to write about God, that is when my spirit is quickened.

 

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One Nation Under God
One Nation Under God
In 1954 President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words “under God,” to the pledge of allegiance. America was then in its golden age, still being forged by what is referred to as the ‘greatest generation’.
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Saving the best Wine til Last .. a lesson from Star Wars
Saving the best Wine til Last .. a lesson from Star Wars
Yoda has a face that has seen many winters, his back is bent over, he walks slowly with a cane but as the fight begins and he draws his light saber, he is animated by the force ...
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A New Hope
A New Hope
There are many good charities here in the Philippines (and all are needed) but mostly they serve the ‘easier poor’ where a scholarship or livelihood training program can yield a tangible and swift result. Below this are levels of more intense suffering, that of the scavengers and beggars who have no voice and very few to speak for them or reach out to them
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A tree and its fruits ... out of the ashes of Marawi a new hope
A tree and its fruits ... out of the ashes of Marawi a new hope
There is a peculiar tension in the hearts of men; a divided nature between the capacity for love placed there by their Creator and a tendency for destruction and hatred. When I see the photos of Marawi and remember the pock-marked, shell shattered streets of Mostar I see the landscape of the human heart, that battle within, which we all must enter into.
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The Best Kept Secret
The Best Kept Secret
When someone opens their heart to God, in all sincerity, then it’s like being unplugged from the Matrix.., to suddenly see the world as it really is, who we are, and who God is. And then the journey begins together and we realize all He can be for us. The most beautiful thing to realize is that we are not alone. There is a good Father on whom we can rely entirely for everything we need; ...
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The Thought Police
The Thought Police
The American philosopher Henry Thoreau wrote an essay entitled ‘Civil Disobedience’ after spending a night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes as a protest against slavery. One line reads “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
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Jesus wept
Jesus wept
I was on the Mount of Olives a couple of years ago at a chapel commemorating the place where Jesus wept over Jerusalem and I imagine this as analogous, he was heartbroken at the refusal of his people to recognize Him and accept His offer of mercy and the life in its fullness that the Gospel offers.
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Freedom
Freedom
No one in China has forgotten the Tiananmen Square massacre; the broken tip of an enormous and growing iceberg of dissent and resistance; and all eyes are now on Hong Kong to see if the people there are ready to stand firm before the vice grips of the mainland regime close in on them and on the very core of what it is to be free.
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Tropical Paradise
Tropical Paradise
On my Christmas morning search to find an open shop to get a can of fruit salad, I came across a family who live on an island in the middle of a dual carriageway: husband, wife, mother-in-law and two children under a tarpaulin. While I was in the shop, I was prompted to get a few groceries for them too and selected a few items which could be prepared easily on the street. When I handed them over t
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Special Treatment
Special Treatment
Now that people have gotten used to eliminating the unborn; it’s natural for their eyes to fall upon the elderly, the infirm, those with mental or physical disability and push society towards mercy killing or special treatment as the SS used to call it.
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Crushing the Head of the serpent
Crushing the Head of the serpent
“It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this on which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.”
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Recommended to Heaven
Recommended to Heaven
No one goes to heaven alone, we must be recommended, and it can only be those whom we have helped get there first.
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Charity is the Glory of God Shinning through Us
Charity is the Glory of God Shinning through Us
Another I heard of is a schoolboy who on hearing about the work of a charity in Africa that provides one meal a day for children so they can attend school every day, decided to forgo his birthday and Christmas presents and instead give what would have been spent to enable these children to be fed and get an education. He continued in this discipline year after year and later became a fundraiser to
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Quest for Freedom
Quest for Freedom
The slave to sin initially gives reasons to sin because of the pleasure derived from it, then justifies it as not being sinful at all as the heart becomes calloused. Eventually there will come a point where the slave to sin has an emptiness that is so great that it can either lead to despair and self destruction or by God’s grace to liberation and salvation.
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Pilgrimage & Penance
Pilgrimage & Penance
As he placed it on his shoulder, he suddenly felt an incredible weight pressing down on him. It was revealed to him that this was the weight of his own sins only. As he walked the way of the cross, it was so difficult that he fell and struggled with it; the other pilgrims thought he was play-acting as he collapsed at the end in complete exhaustion
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