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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Tuesday in the First Week of Advent, 29 November 2022 Isaiah 11:1-10 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Luke 10:21-24
God our loving Father: Thank you for this gift of Advent, especially for the gift of our guide, your prophet Isaiah who was the first to announce from afar the coming of the Christ, your Son Jesus.
And today he speaks your words that are so beautiful and lovely but, so radical and contrary to what we believe, to what we always hold on to.
On that day, a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom.
Isaiah 11:1
How wonderful, that when Jesus finally came, he called us to be small again, to be weak and insignificant like children even to the point of being nothing, of losing and dying in one's self.
A day a shoot sprouting and a stump. Then, a bud shall blossom.
Empty me, O God, of myself and everything that fills me so that you may fill me with your spirit and form me into your desired being; keep me rooted in you through Christ who had come, would come again and comes always.
If I have to be reduced even to a mere stump, let it be, Lord; grant me patience to await the sprouting of a shoot until the bud comes forth to bloom and make us experience Isaiah's prophecy: "Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid; the calf and young lion shall browse together with a little child to guide them. The cow and the bear shall be neighbors, together their young shall rest while the lion eat hay like the ox. The baby shall play by the cobra's den, and the child lay his hand on the adder's lair" (cf. Is. 11:6-9).
Keep us awake, Jesus as we await and work for your peaceful presence here and now. Amen.
