name of God

Unlike our name,
your name "I AM",
Lord is most unique -
right away when I say
your name, I feel you!
Your name is more than a name
for it is YOU yourself - so deep,
so true, so powerful that you envelop
me in your person; when I think of
your name "I AM", I am already
dissolved and overwhelmed!
Moreover,
your "I AM" is exactly
what I feel,
and realize,
and experience
in Christ calling us:

Today I come to you,
Jesus with all my burdens
and worries,
pains and hurts,
sickness and
sufferings;
you are I AM, Lord -
heed our cries like in Egypt:
the crime and corruption
so rampant,
the selfishness and pride
of everyone,
the sin and evil that stink,
a kind of darkness lurking
everywhere;
yes, there are modern Pharaohs
lording over us today
but most of all too,
it is us who lord over
our lives most of the time;
bring us back to the burning bush
so we may take off our
sandals because the whole
earth is yours which we have
usurped and destroyed;
let us feel you again, "I AM"
all around,
all encompassing;
let us enter you, Lord,
to experience your abundance
of love and mercy,
warmth and light,
life and new hope;
let us rest in you, Lord
like in Eden when you alone
is God.
Not us.
Amen.

Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Our Lady of Fatima University
Valenzuela City

The lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul, Thursday, Easter VII, 06 June 2019

Acts 22:30;23:6-11 >< )))> >< )))> >< )))> John 17:20-26*

Part of the Mt. Sinai mountain range in Egypt. Photo by author, 07 May 2019.

More than 1500 years before your coming Lord Jesus Christ, God called Moses in a burning bush, introducing himself as “I Am Who Am”. That “name” was more than a word. It was his very presence among the chosen people.

With a name, you enabled us to invoke you, to call you O God for you are always present in us and among us.

But now, your name, your presence gets a deeper meaning in Jesus when he said:

“Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me. I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.”
John 17:25-26

So wonderful, O Lord, the in you, God is more than a mere presence but has become a loving presence among us and in us! In your great sacrifice for us, you did not introduce to us a new word for God’s name but a new mode of presence that anyone who encounters you Jesus encounters the Father too.

And it is always more than that, O God, for you are semper major, always greater.

In Christ Jesus, we encounter you Father as you approach us in him; then, you lead us out beyond our very selves into your infinite greatness and love for you are always more than a presence!

Exactly what you did to St. Paul during his trial in Jerusalem when the Pharisees and the Sadducees joined forces to pin him down eventually quarrelled when he spoke of Christ’s resurrection.

So many times in life when we feel like giving up, when we feel it is over, you suddenly surprise us with sudden turn of events that are so amazing, bringing joy into our hearts and most of all, reassuring us with your love and protection.

We pray for those hoping for miracles, whether big or small, that they may feel your loving presence to realize you are the “emmanu elohim” or Emmanuel for God-is-with-us. Amen.

Sacred Heart Novitiate, Novaliches. Photo by author, July 2018.

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The lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul, Thursday, Easter VII, 06 June 2019

Acts 22:30;23:6-11 >< )))> >< )))> >< )))> John 17:20-26*

The lord Is My Chef Breakfast Recipe for the Soul, Thursday, Easter VII, 06 June 2019

Acts 22:30;23:6-11 >< )))*> >< )))*> >< )))*> John 17:20-26

Acts 22:30;23:6-11 >< )))> >< )))> >< )))> John 17:20-26*