The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Monday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year I, 24 February 2025
Sirach 1:1-10 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Mark 9:14-19
Your words today O Lord
God our Father
are so timely
when some people in power
try to erase from our consciousness
the grace of EDSA People Power 1986;
your words O Lord
are so timely
when some people in power
dilly dally with their authority
refusing to serve justice to those
who belittle the laws of the land,
without any decency at all with
themselves and with others;
your words dear God
are so timely
when we your people
will elect again our next batch
of lawmakers and leaders.
Your words,
O Father are so timely
that we may finally wake up to the reality
of the great difference between
wisdom and intelligence:
how sad people put more
premium on intelligence though
important but always abused
and misused for personal gains;
wisdom is different because
it is YOU, O God!
Wisdom is finding you,
seeing the whole of everything,
our interrelatedness,
more of "looking into"
than "looking at"
because wisdom
is holiness.
All wisdom comes from the Lord and with him it remains forever. The sand of the seashore, the drops of the rain, the days of eternity: who can number these? Heaven’s height , earth’s breadth, the depths of the abyss: who can explore these? Before all things else wisdom was created; and prudent understanding, from eternity.
How sad
the world looks more,
follows more
and believes more
people of high intelligence,
so brilliant but empty of humanity,
filled with technology
driven with utility;
let us desire more of wisdom,
of being wise,
of wrapping with prayer
our every endeavor;
let us grow in wisdom
by growing in Christ
who clearly taught us today
how certain kinds of exorcisms
and other ministry
"can only come out
through prayer"
(Mark 9:29).
Amen.
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