This poem is a tribute to all of those people we knew and loved so much, who died not so long ago. It was read at my sister’s funeral service on September 26, 2015 in Hammond, Indiana. It is titled “Safely Home”, the Author unknown. ~ Chaplain John Szilvasy
I am home in Heaven, dear ones; Oh, so happy and so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty in this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over, every restless tossing passed; I am now at peace forever, Safely Home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder I so calmly trod the valley of the shade? Oh! but Jesus’ love illumined every dark and fearful glade.
And He came Himself to meet me in that way so hard to tread; and with Jesus’ arm to lean on, could I have one doubt or dread?
Then you must grieve so sorely, for I love you dearly still: try to look beyond earth’s shadows, pray to trust our Father’s Will.
There is work still waiting for you, so you must not idly stand; do it now, while life remaineth – you shall rest in Jesus’ land.
When that work is all completed, He will gently call you home; Oh, the rapture of that meeting, oh the joy to see you come!
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Chaplains Corner - January 2014
American secularists and their anti-God socialism can be defeated with God's help. During the Nazi
takeover of Germany, German Christians did nothing to stop the spread of German secularists with
their anti-God socialism that eventually led to their defeat in World War II.
It appears that Americans have become brainwashed by American secularists with their anti-God socialist propaganda influence by the news media, teachers, university professors, and radical liberals.
It now seems that brainwashed Americans can hardly be aroused to fight and defeat these radical liberal socialists and regain their freedoms and rights. Instead they blindly obey these tyrants so willingly that they have not only lost their freedoms and rights, but have become totally dependent on the destructive forces of American secularism and anti-God socialism that is destroying our country and our Constitution.
All is not lost and hopeless. God has shown us a way out of this mess we have created by our sinful inactivity. We can begin by praying to God for His forgiveness and yielding to the leading of His Holy Spirit for guidance and courage. We can become politically active with our money, actions, and votes. We can elect candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to God and Christian moral values.
We, the people, can defeat the American secularists and their anti-God socialism with God’s help. God has already given us His solution that is recorded in the Holy Bible as follows:
"Blessed is the nation whose God is Lord” (Psalm 33:12a) and
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (Chronicles 7:14).
Chapter IX Chaplain John A. Szilvasy
It appears that Americans have become brainwashed by American secularists with their anti-God socialist propaganda influence by the news media, teachers, university professors, and radical liberals.
It now seems that brainwashed Americans can hardly be aroused to fight and defeat these radical liberal socialists and regain their freedoms and rights. Instead they blindly obey these tyrants so willingly that they have not only lost their freedoms and rights, but have become totally dependent on the destructive forces of American secularism and anti-God socialism that is destroying our country and our Constitution.
All is not lost and hopeless. God has shown us a way out of this mess we have created by our sinful inactivity. We can begin by praying to God for His forgiveness and yielding to the leading of His Holy Spirit for guidance and courage. We can become politically active with our money, actions, and votes. We can elect candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to God and Christian moral values.
We, the people, can defeat the American secularists and their anti-God socialism with God’s help. God has already given us His solution that is recorded in the Holy Bible as follows:
"Blessed is the nation whose God is Lord” (Psalm 33:12a) and
“If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (Chronicles 7:14).
Chapter IX Chaplain John A. Szilvasy
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