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.
