Sharing Jesus

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Wednesday in the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 06 September 2023
Colossians 1:1-8   ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'>   Luke 4:38-44

My dearest Jesus,
my Lord and my God,
how often have I tried to
have you solely as mine,
trying to keep you for myself,
refusing to share you with others,
forgetting the inverse truth
that to have you is actually
to give you,
to share you
with others?

At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, “To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.”

Luke 4:42-43

Teach me, dear Jesus
to be like Simon's
mother-in-law:  after
being healed by you,
"she immediately got up
and waited on them"
(Lk. 4:39); teach me to
be attached to you,
close to you but never
to cling to you in a way
that prevents others 
from experiencing you.

Like St. Paul who freely
trusted other fellow workers
in your vineyard, 
let me enrich others' faith
by graciously sharing you
with them so that
they too may share
you to more other
people to experience
your love and mercy,
your joy of salvation.
Amen.