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Ye Ought forgive One Another

I awoke very early one morning pondering over the things I had not been able to forgive. I mentally recounted some of them. There was the teacher who terrified and bullied me when I was a little child. That was most difficult to forgive, for I remembered the tears it brought to my gentle mother. …

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Posted byChris LopezFebruary 8, 2018Posted inSpiritualTags: forgiveness

The Theme of Redemption

Great literature has the capacity to stir our souls, and to uplift and edify us. The greatest of all the works of literature center on and around the theme of man’s desire to better himself, and to redeem and separate himself from that which is degrading. Such a work of literature is Joseph Conrad’s “Lord …

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Posted byChris LopezFebruary 8, 2018Posted inSpiritualTags: literature

A Vale of Tears

· Men of a spiritual propensity have correctly characterized this life as “a vale of tears.” Whether it comes to us soon or late, each of us will one day face our personal Gethsemane. Shall we then turn our backs on Him who will never turn His back on us? Sadly, some there be that …

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Posted byChris LopezFebruary 8, 2018February 8, 2018Posted inSpiritualTags: Gethsemane, tears, trials

Our Father’s Love

Do I love my children and grandchildren? To the point of adoration! If this be so, I move forward in the faith that my love for them is but in small measure a similitude of my Heavenly Father’s love for me. One day I shall have the privilege of again beholding his face, and He …

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Posted byChris LopezMarch 31, 2017Posted inSpiritualTags: Heavenly Father, Redeemer

When We Have Known Heartache

When we have known deep heartache, are we not, (if we will lend ourselves to it,) given the balm to help the healing of others whose hearts are a breaking? With spirit anguished and broken, can we not tenderly receive the grief stricken, that we too may be healed? Herein do we tender and demonstrate …

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Posted byChris LopezDecember 19, 2016December 19, 2016Posted inSpiritualTags: broken heart, Redeemer

Because He lives!

Some years ago I attended the funeral of a beloved student whose grief stricken parents had no religion to turn to. A religious service was quickly organized, but I have not forgotten the feeling of awful and utter desolation accompanying the parents in their moment of unimaginable grief. Where was their boy? Were they never …

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Posted byChris LopezDecember 16, 2016Posted inSpiritualTags: life eternal, resurrection

Forgive, That We Might Be Forgiven

I awoke very early one morning pondering over the things I had not been able to forgive. I mentally recounted some of them. There was the teacher who terrified and bullied me when I was a little child. That was most difficult to forgive, for I remembered the tears it brought to my gentle mother. …

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Posted byChris LopezDecember 13, 2016December 15, 2016Posted inSpiritualTags: forgiveness

Divine Redeemer

Then came the moment when Jesus spake to the Twelve, saying, “Behold, the hour…is now come…” (1) Long before the foundation of the earth He had entered into covenant with the Father that He would come forth and redeem all mankind, (2) and now the awful hour had come when He would say in his …

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Posted byChris LopezDecember 5, 2016December 5, 2016Posted inSpiritualTags: Redeemer, Savior

That Which I Revere

I revere the Constitution of these United States. I pay homage to the Founding Fathers of this great nation. With eyes wide open I recognize this country as the greatest nation upon the face of the earth.The great God of Heaven has willed it so, and will allow it to be free as long as …

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Posted byChris LopezNovember 25, 2016November 25, 2016Posted inSpiritual, The ConstitutionTags: the Constitution, The Founding Fathers

The Flag, and Hearts Abreaking

In 1951, when I was six, I was sitting between my father and my Uncle Jim Lopez in my uncle’s new car. My mother and my siblings were in the back seat, and we were on the way to Houston. Uncle Jimmy was doing 80 mph when the state trooper pulled him over. At a …

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Posted byChris LopezNovember 10, 2016November 10, 2016Posted inSpiritual, The ConstitutionTags: The Flag

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