Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 14 November 2025 Friday in the Thirty-Second Week of Ordinary Time, Year I Wisdom 13:1-9 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Luke 17:26-37
How true are your words today, God our loving Father, when we admire the beauty and power of the natural world like the sun, moon, stars, fire, wind including our very selves - and yet fail to find you, O Lord, in the process.
All men were by nature foolish who were in ignorance of God, and who from the good things seen did not succeed in knowing him who is, and from studying the works did not discern the artisan… For from the greatness and the beauty of created things tyeir original author, by analoogy, is seen. But yet, for these the blame is less; for they indeed have gone astray perhaps, though they seek God and wish to find him. For they search busily among his works, but are distracted by what they see, because the things seen are fair (Wisdom 13:1, 5-7).
Heal me, O Lord, of my spiritual nearsightedness, when I choose to be myopic in looking at things and self that I fail to see beyond to find you; awaken my awareness of your presence in silence and emptiness; let me go beyond the marvels of nature and take them into my heart to find you, to hear you, to experience you; heal my spiritual myopia, of looking not beyond what is in front of me so as not to be "As it was in the days of Noah... they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all" (Luke 17:26, 27); dear Jesus, send me your Holy Spirit to open my eyes to where God our Father is present in my life today. Amen. Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Our Lady of Fatima University Valenzuela City
