Our misplaced priorities

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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 25 September 2025
Thursday in Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I
Haggai 1:1-8     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Luke 9:7-9

God our loving Father,
give us humility and courage
to admit our sins
and faults 
for all the mess
we are into today
as a nation:
the wholesale corruption
and looting of government 
money that resulted in more
floods,
substandard facilities,
inefficient services
and shameless servants;
painful but true,
these are all because 
of our misplaced priorities
in life.

Now thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways! You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; you have drunk, but have not been exhilarated; have clothed yourselves, but not been warmed; and whoever earned wages earned them for a bag with holes in it (Haggai 1:5-6).

Like the people
at the time of your 
Prophet Haggai,
we have been preoccupied
with our selves,
of gaining so much
money and material
things forgetting you,
O God, and things of the
above like decency,
morality,
and spirituality;
for the right price,
many among us
have brought into power
not just corrupt
but inept officials
to run our government;
many among us
have glorified thievery,
of amassing wealth
even in sinful ways
that everything is now
measured in terms of 
money and gold;
many among us
have forgotten you,
Lord, to live in your ways
and precepts
following more of the world
that led us to destruction
and emptiness;
let us prioritize you
again, Lord
so that we too
may see how you
see things and 
persons unlike Herod
in the gospel;
let us prioritize you,
Lord so that we may
start planting
and building
things you want in life
that delight you
and perfect us
in the process.
Amen.