divinity

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Friday, Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious, 17 November 2023
Wisdom 13:1-9 <'[[[[>< <'[[[[>< + ><]]]]'> ><]]]]'> Luke 17:26-37

*Photo by author, St. Scholastica Retreat House, Baguio City, 23 August 2023.*

Arouse us, dear God,
our loving Father,
awake us from our sleep,
let us open our eyes,
our hearts,
our very selves
to your divine presence
around us and within us;
let us bask in this most
lovely divine milieu
so many have tried so hard
to negate and discard
as not true.

How true are your words
again this day from the
Book of Wisdom:

All men were by nature foolish who were in ignorance of God, and who from the good things seen did not succeed in knowing him who is, and from studying the works did not discern the artisan.
Wisdom 13:1

How foolish have we become
to reject you, to abandon you,
to not believe nor recognize
you, O God, who can be gleaned
from nature and creation,
most especially in our studies
and search for truth and meaning;
but twice foolish are those who 
believe only in themselves,
playing gods, worshipping their
body and beauty,
amazed with their strength and power
full of conceit and self-centeredness
(cf. Wisdom 13:2-4).

Keep us simple, Father,
to find you in little things,
in the unseen realities of this life
that point us to your divine milieu;
let us not wait for that sign
of gathering of vultures
when we lay wasted,
and dead to sin
and blindness.
Amen.

As I closed my prayers today got my stares fixed on empty space that stirred me into a daze; And I was amazed at how we are in a place so vast we cannot keep pace yet we say in everyone's face we need a space, we have no space!

If we can appreciate the shape in every space our heart will ablaze with so much praise for in between is grace of a sacred space to raise our living and relating in sharing God dwelling in every being loving and caring.

What is a space? A place or a dimension a creation for correlations to locate persons and things and every entity yet always considered as empty only a reality in relativity; but, as far as every soul can desire every mind can imagine space is there to see like the deep, blue sea an infinity and mystery our entry into divinity!