In pursuit of wisdom

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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Wednesday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year I, 26 February 2025
Sirach 4:11-19     ><]]]]'>  +  ><]]]]'>  +  ><]]]]'>     Mark 9:38-40

Let me pursue wisdom,
Let me follow and seek you,
God my Father
in order to find life and meaning;
unlike knowledge,
wisdom is not an intellectual pursuit
that can be gained through reading
and academic studies;
pursuing wisdom is finding you,
Lord which is very slow,
always within the realms of 
failures and disappointments,
calling us to acknowledge our
fears and anxieties
because wisdom is lived
and experienced.

Wisdom breathes life into her children and admonishes those who seek her. He who loves her loves life; those who seek her will be embraced by the Lord… bringing him happiness and reveal her secrets to them and she will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and an understanding of justice (Sirach 4:11-12, 18).

Wisdom is knowing you,
 God;
loving you,
 God;
seeing everything
in your perspective,
immersing myself in you
to be one in you,
one with you
to understand and appreciate
each of your creation;
hence,
embracing wisdom
is embracing Jesus
your Son, Father
who came to show us
everything
in the light of justice
and fairness,
charity and love
not with petty rivalries,
and envy of earthly
entitlements
 that can be so fleeting
and never satisfying
nor contenting.

Let me love your law,
therefore,
Lord
like the psalmist today
so that I too
may have
peace
in Jesus.
Amen.