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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Forgive our Enemies
Forgive our Enemies
I wondered what those who knew me in my youth would find more unlikely, that I would ever write about forgiving enemies or that Hannibal Lector would pen a vegetarian cookbook... definitely the former.
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Plan 75
Plan 75
Often as people age or are afflicted with illness or disability their external identity diminishes. This is due to loss of jobs, finances, or apparent usefulness. Their roles shrink as their families grow-up and leave and they retire, perhaps alone when spouses die. And a God-less society is not capable of seeing true worth or dignity anymore...
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Gratitude
Gratitude
Where a situation is more critical, we tend to have a deeper gratitude, when someone saves your life with timely CPR during a heart attack or more so, when the assistance is sacrificial as when a relative donates a kidney to extend his loved one’s life. And yet, in the most crucial drama imaginable we tend to be quite aloof and unappreciative.
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Have you seen Lazarus ?
Have you seen Lazarus ?
....Again the notion of wealth is rather subdued really. He had fine clothes, dined sumptuously every day; but it doesn’t mention the trappings of extreme or obscene wealth. No private jet, no yacht in the harbour, no 4×4 in the garage, no i-phone or offshore dollar account in Panama or Switzerland....
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A Mighty Spiritual Battle
A Mighty Spiritual Battle
“I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still bring him back with a twitch upon the thread”
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Two for the Price of one ... a Medjugorje story
Two for the Price of one ... a Medjugorje story
On his last day there, out on the balcony of the house he was staying in, he saw the sun spinning and the rays of light emanating from it towards him like laser beams. At that time whilst acknowledging it as a sign of Our Lady’s presence there there was no cure or healing at that time.
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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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