Think about it
Greatest love story
By Jun Velasco
“The foundation of true joy is the conscience.”— Seneca
CHRISTENDOM, these days, is dramatically facing anew a litmus test.
In this season of Lent, we try reflect on the series of devastations that have ravaged of Mother Earth.
While we enjoy, thank God, relative calm, we are worried by environmentalists’ continued warning of a Big One coming, something similar if not worse than the last floods brought by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng.
Pray it wouldn’t.
We should continually be in prayers, soulful and confident prayers.
We try to rationalize the man-made disaster (Japan’s nuclear fallout) and Mother Earth’s earthquakes, floods and other forms of disasters like they were a much-needed bath to remove pollution from the environment and from men’s hearts.
We’ve read about “cleansing” of the earth from millions of humans and their buildings and their improvements thousands, nay, millions of years ago.
Our guide to the past is the Bible, with scholarly inputs from investigative writer Zecharia Sitchen, best selling author of The End of Days, who shows its fusion with evolution.
In Sitchin’s books, we come to know of extraterrestrials who came down and inhabited our world, where they introduced more advanced science and the arts. For instance how explain their power to land astronauts on our planet Earth and built the pyramids and giant stone sculptures?
On the occasion of Lent, we give way to our recollection of the life and mission of our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of Yahweh, the Omnipotent God whose Crucifixion on Good Friday should teach us to be humble.
Our friend, Dr. Robin Navarro, who started a Ministry of Reconciliation a couple of years back, invites us to witness a reenactment of Christ’s Crucifixion in his farm in San Fabian, in either of barangays Colisao or Binday.
The place is on top of a hill overlooking the Lingayen Gulf and the panorama of La Union and Benguet mountains.
Dr. Navarro says his farm is “equipped with Old Testament replica: a massive one story size tablets of stone where the Ten Commandments were written by the Lord’s fingers; the Rock of Horeb which Moses struck to bring forth water for the thirsty Israelites in the wilderness; the pool of Siloam where those who bathed could be healed when an angel stirred the waters; the Sukkot, represented by a tabernacle-like restaurant, the first halting place of the Israelites in their march out of Egypt, etcetera….”
Meanwhile, former Mayor Remy Yu of Rosales, Pangasinan talks of a place in Tarlac City where a piece of the cross where Jesus was nailed is being kept. A priest, Fr. Archie Cortes brought the piece of wood from Germany in 2002 to the “Monasteryo de Tarlac,”
Veteran writer and former Press Undersecretary Cesar Carpio who has seen it promised to write his own account for facebook.
On Jesus’ life and His greatest love for man, we lift a portion from nanay Aurora Martinez Velasco’s book, “Sharing gifts of Love,”
The book, neatly bundled by Usec Dante, sister Susan and Eloisa, contains her speeches and messages as a lay leader of the Baptist church.
She talks about John 16:5-14 — “Christ’s death on the cross made us available to have personal relationship with God, when we confess our sins. God declares us righteous and delivers us from the judgment of our sins.
V13 – the truth, into which the Holy Spirit guides us, is the truth about Christ. The spirit also helps us through patient practice to discern right from wrong.
Jesus said the Holy Spirit would tell them (disciples) what is yet to come, the nature of their mission, the opposition that would face the final outcome understand these words of promises until the Holy Spirit came after Jesus’ death and resurrection.
The Holy Spirit revealed truths to the disciples that wrote down in the book that formed the New Testament.”
Halleluja!
A good soul emailed this to us, ” May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others.
May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.”
Amen.
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NOTES: Our old friend from Lubbock, Texas, retired health inspector Val Gellido was in town last week to attend the interment of younger brod, Nap, 66, who succumbed to a lingering illness, at the Calasiao Cemetery.
Kuya Val, now 70, has lived in Texas with his wife, the former Lilia Barberan of Dagupan City for 26 years. Their kids, Mila of the US Air Force, stays with husband Kem, an US Army officer in Hawaii, while architect son Cesar, and wife Lori, a psychologist, live in Colorado. Welcome home, too, to Sta. Cruz, Manila, Perry Ong, who works at Baylor Hospital in Dalles, Texas.
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