Becoming the good soil

The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Friday in the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 28 July 2023
Exodus 20:1-27   ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'>   Matthew 13:18-23

God our loving Father,
make me a good soil,
a real "good earth" who
welcomes your word
to penetrate my heart.

Let me be a
good soil, O Lord,
by allowing myself
to be absorbed 
by your word, 
your seed.

Let your word,
O God, grow
and bear fruit 
in my heart!

Forgive us
that until now
from Mount Sinai
where you gave us
your Ten Commandments
to the shores of Galilee
where Jesus spoke to us
in parables of your kingdom
up to now in the comforts
of our homes and 
parish church amid
the squalor of our many
brothers and sisters
without decent home,
your words seem to have
fallen on deaf ears.

O how you amaze me
so greatly, loving God
for your patience in 
continuing to speak to us,
inviting us to enter into a 
dialogue and relationship
with you; and yet, here we 
are, not listening,
still stubborn;
teach me to give myself
to you completely so
you would absorb me
and fill me with your life
and energy.
Amen.