"Power that does
not address injustice, oppression and cruel imprisonment in society is not
based on a
good or true concept of
God. Power corrupts when it does not
have a good and true concept of God. St. Paul reminds us that we can have all
the faith and hope in the world, but without love we have nothing. Love makes
our concept of God pure." Dr.
Salvador Alvarez
Whenever I begin to have doubts in my mind or heart about freedom
ever coming into my life, I immediately begin to pray to my most beloved
brother Jesus Christ and I ask Him to please come into my heart and soul and
lift me from this mode of oppressive darkness in which I have lived and
continue to survive by any means necessary. Even when I think of those who have
refused to give me a drink of water for my thirst or a piece of bread for my
hunger, I immediately turn to our beloved brother, Jesus Christ, and I will not
forget how He knew in His heart that He was going to suffer like no other human
being in the history of this earth. He shared with His disciples and followers
that they were to deny Him and not even come to seek His freedom or alleviate
His hunger, thirst, painful torture, and beatings before carrying His cross. He
wore a crown of thorns pushed into His temples. When He reached the top of the
hill, he was stripped, and nailed alive to the cross. He hung with all the
strength left in His heart and soul, stared into heaven, and said to God,
"Forgive them for they do not know what they do."
It is through the cross of our beloved brother, Jesus Christ,
that I have forgiveness for those who refused to ask if I have remained alive
or not after 20 years of oppressive suffering in the prisons of America. It is
this pain and suffering through chains and shackles, at times in complete
darkness, that have given me the strength, courage, pride, and spirituality to
seek my freedom and the freedom of humanity that has been oppressed for long periods
of time throughout history.
I feel the essence of freedom in my heart and soul and it
gives me life. Every day I feel younger and younger and younger, for I know in
my heart that God has a mission for me in today’s world, and I intend to
fulfill that spiritual mission for all.
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