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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Thursday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 03 August 2023 Exodus 40:16-21, 34-38 ><}}}}*> + ><}}}}*> + ><}}}}*> Matthew 13:47-53
God our Father, it is undeniably true that days are getting faster and shorter; life is quickly passing without us really realizing; how crazy we have become working so hard eight to ten hours a day, five days a week only to enjoy life in less than 24 hours; we are all in a hurry in a rat race that has no winner, wishing we could be older too soon only to wish later how we could be young again.
Help us to center our lives in you again like when your people were in the wilderness; let us be aware and mindful of your presence in our midst like your tent: "Whenever the cloud rose from the Dwelling, the children of Israel would set out on their journey. But if the cloud did not lift, they would not go forward; only when it lifted did they go forward" (Exodus 40:36-37).
Let us be discerning, Lord, in our moves, in our lives "like the head of the household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old" (Matthew 13:52); lead me, Lord, and do not let me be led by the world, by my desires, by my ego and pride. Amen.
