The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Monday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year I, 24 February 2025 Sirach 1:1-10 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Mark 9:14-19
Your words today O Lord God our Father are so timely when some people in power try to erase from our consciousness the grace of EDSA People Power 1986; your words O Lord are so timely when some people in power dilly dally with their authority refusing to serve justice to those who belittle the laws of the land, without any decency at all with themselves and with others; your words dear God are so timely when we your people will elect again our next batch of lawmakers and leaders. Your words, O Father are so timely that we may finally wake up to the reality of the great difference between wisdom and intelligence: how sad people put more premium on intelligence though important but always abused and misused for personal gains; wisdom is different because it is YOU, O God! Wisdom is finding you, seeing the whole of everything, our interrelatedness, more of "looking into" than "looking at" because wisdom is holiness.
All wisdom comes from the Lord and with him it remains forever. The sand of the seashore, the drops of the rain, the days of eternity: who can number these? Heaven’s height , earth’s breadth, the depths of the abyss: who can explore these? Before all things else wisdom was created; and prudent understanding, from eternity.
How sad the world looks more, follows more and believes more people of high intelligence, so brilliant but empty of humanity, filled with technology driven with utility; let us desire more of wisdom, of being wise, of wrapping with prayer our every endeavor; let us grow in wisdom by growing in Christ who clearly taught us today how certain kinds of exorcisms and other ministry "can only come out through prayer" (Mark 9:29). Amen.
