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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 27 October 2025
Monday in the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time, Year I
Romans 8:12-17 <*{{{{>< + ><}}}}*> Luke 13:10-17
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.” He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God (Luke 13:10-13).
What a lovely story for this Monday, Jesus, when many of us got the blues so to speak: many of us are like that woman at the synagogue "bent over", "bowed down" and for the longest time have seen only the dirty, hard ground below; the reasons are varied, Lord: many of us are bowed down due to sins and evil, pains and hurts and trauma some from people we trusted and loved, mistakes and missed opportunities, and so many others that have enslaved and crippled us for so long like that woman you have healed; you know so well how much we have wanted to break free from these long years of bowed down posture so that we may rise and straighten up our lives to look up to you in the sky, to feel the warmth of the sun, savor the beauty of creation.
On this Monday, let us take to heart the words of St. Paul that we are not debtors to the flesh... that we received a spirit of adoption to cry "Abba, Father!" (Romans 8:12,15).
For those living "bowed down" in pain and shame, arouse them, Jesus with the warmth of the Holy Spirit, to rejoice in our new life in you. Amen.
