The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Monday in the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 24 July 2023 Exodus 14:5-18 <*[[[[>< + ><]]]]*> Matthew 12:38-42
God our loving Father, as we brace for a coming powerful typhoon as well as the planned transport strike beginning today until Wednesday, may we take this as an opportunity for us to muster our strength and firm resolve to move forward in you and with you.
Many times we are like your Chosen People in the wilderness during their Exodus from Egypt, always complaining with every difficulties and trials we encounter in our journey, dilly-dallying on whether to go back or forge ahead.
And they complained to Moses, “Were there no burial places in Egypt that you had to bring us out here to die in the desert? Why did you do this to us? Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Did we not tell you this in Egypt, when we said, ‘Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians’? Far better for us to be the slaves of the Egyptians than die in the desert.”
Exodus 14:11-12
If we are not complaining to you, O Lord, we are challenging you for more proofs why we should trust you, or believe you or even follow you like the scribes and Pharisees who kept on asking for signs from Jesus.
Forgive us, O Lord, for always looking back, refusing to let go of the past and being so anxious and wary of the future, failing to live in the present moment where you are for your name is I AM, not I WAS nor I WILL BE. Let me learn to stop once in a while, look back if needed but set my sights to your future glory by seeing you with me and in me in the present moment. Amen.
