Tag: worries

When is enough really enough?

Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Wednesday, Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
Feast of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, 23 September 2026
Proverbs 30:5-9     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Luke 9:1-6
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Your words today,
dear God our Father
are so comforting and 
reassuring of your loving
presence; however, 
you teach us also too
to completely trust you
so that we may be comforted
and reassured,
thereby learn
when enough is
really enough.

Two things I ask of you, deny them not to me before I die: Put falsehood and lying far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches; provide me only with the food I need; lest, being full, I deny you, saying, “Who is the Lord?” Or, being in want, I steal, and profane the name of my God (Proverbs 30:7-9). 

Teach me to be content
with whatever there is for me,
not desiring more than I need
so that I remain open for you
and your work,
for you O Lord is more than enough; 
teach me to learn to stop
in pursuing whatever
I set my eyes or heart on when 
it is causing more harm than 
joy and wellness for it is only
in following you enough is enough; 
teach me, Lord, 
to be like St. Padre Pio
in leading a simple life, 
just praying, 
hoping and not worrying
for you O Lord is more than
enough.
Amen.

Much Ado About Nothing

Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Tuesday, Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 25 August 2026
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, 14-17     <*((((>< + ><))))*>     Matthew 23:23-26
Photo by author, St. Paul Spiritual & Renewal Center, Bgy. Tanyawak, Alfonso, Cavite, 19 August 2026.
Glory and praise
to you Lord Jesus Christ
this blessed Tuesday;
indeed, our life is most often
a comedy like that play by
Shakespeare,
"Much Ado About Nothing" -
we spend too much time on so
many trivial things that we forget
the more essential,
debating and quarreling
on words and expressions,
choosing things over persons,
doing and doing without
knowing and being,
ending more lost
and confused
amid the affluence
never experienced before.

Jesus said: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. But these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!” (Matthew 23:23-24)

We not only forget
the weightier,
essential things in life
but we also refuse to live
in the present moment,
preferring to dwell on the future
like the Thessalonians
wasting too much on worries
and non-existent forgetting
what is before us,
the present that is unfolding,
happening in your very presence;
teach us to simply trust in you,
Jesus like the psalmist,
 to rejoice
and be glad for you,
O Lord is king,
just and merciful,
most of all,
so loving
and far more greater
than all of our worries.

Let us stop all these much
ado about nothing,
Lord,
for only you suffices
in life.
Amen.
Photo by author, St. Paul Spiritual & Renewal Center, Bgy. Tanyawak, Alfonso, Cavite, 19 August 2026.