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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Tuesday in the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time, Year II, 08 October 2024 Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 ><000'> + <'000>< Luke 10:38-42
O Lord, you have probed me and you know me, you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. Truly you have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother’s womb. I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made; wonderful are your works (Psalm 139:1-2, 13-14).
Thank you, loving God our Father for this brand new day! Like the psalmist today, I am at awe with your creation, beginning with me at how you have formed my inmost being that enables me to connect with You through your wonderful creation! In forming my inmost being, You have made me yours, enabling me to realize my connection with You, O God, my Creator as well as with your entire creation; and if I am lost or had gone astray, it is still my inmost being You have formed in me that enables me to reconnect with You and myself and others.
Brothers and sisters: You heard of my former way of life in Judaism, how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it… But when he, who from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me: rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus (Galatians 1:13, 15-17).
How lovely and so true like St. Paul, You have formed our inmost being so that we may remain connected or be reconnected with You when we are lost and separated.
Grant us O God the gift of discipline in cultivating a prayer life, a life centered in You so that we remain connected in You through Jesus Christ like Mary sitting beside Him at His feet, listening to His every word; let us be aware of your precious gift of our inmost being by cultivating a prayer life to make our connections stronger; You created us, O God to be connected always with You, our self, and with others; keep us strong in resisting temptations to sin, to separate and be isolated from You and others by destroying our connections, disregarding our inmost being. Amen.
