Timeless

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Friday, Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, Priest, 27 September 2024
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Luke 9:18-22

There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. He (God) has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men’s ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11).

How lovely
and mysterious 
are your words today,
God our Father;
you have appointed time
for everything,
making everything appropriate
to its time,
and has put the timeless
into our hearts.

We live and move
in time,
through time
measured and taken 
in various ways
seen in the past,
the present,
and the future;
there is the inescapable
dimension and reality
we keep on freezing momentarily,
hoping to go back in the past
while we are so eager 
to know what is to happen
next in the future.

Let Jesus Christ 
your Son reign in our hearts
that we may always live
in the present moment of
every here and now,
the timeless in our hearts
with our fervent loving service
to you through others;
like St. Vincent de Paul,
let us be rooted in you,
Jesus, living in the present,
lovingly serving the poor
and needy among us;
but most of all,
make our hearts 
attuned in you, Jesus,
in prayer to experience
the timeless
even right here
in this life.
Amen.