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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Tuesday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 28 July 2026 Jeremiah 14:17-22 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Matthew 13:36-43
Your words today are so tender, so loving, most merciful of all:
Let my eyes stream with tears day and night, without rest, over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound. If I walk out into the field, look! those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, look! those consumed by hunger. Even the prophet and the priest forage in a land they know not (Jeremiah 14:17-18).
Many times it is so easy for us your people to complain about you being far and distant even nowhere when we are deep into sufferings not realizing you are the first to be so deeply hurt with our plight and woes; many times because of our bloated egos and self-centeredness, we could not feel your being one with our hurts and pains in life that usually are caused by our own sins and stubbornness as Jeremiah lamented, "We recognize, O Lord, our wickedness, the guilt of our fathers; that we have sinned against you" (Jeremiah 14:20).
And despite all our sins, you remain with us, loving us, forgiving us, blessing us for you alone can give life, can promise a better tomorrow, because you alone is our hope when everything is dark and dried.
Among the nations’ idols is there any that gives rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you alone, O Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone have done all these things (Jeremiah 14:22).
Keep us radiant in our hopes in you, Jesus when everything seems to be ruined and lost, when weeds seem to have taken over the wheat; you always have the last say in everything when all we can shout is a firm Amen!
