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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Friday, First Week in Ordinary Time, Year II, 16 January 2026 1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Mark 2:1-12
Today we thank you, dear God our Father for those people you have sent to to carry us through our darkest and trying moments in life to find you, to be near you, to rise again like those men in the gospel today.
They came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. Unable to get near Jesus because of the crowd, they opened up the roof above him. After they had broken through, they let down the mat on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to him, “Child, your sins are forgiven” (Mark 2:3-5).
Thank you, Father in sending people who never gave up on us, who still believed in us, who hoped and had faith for us when we have totally given up in life that is why Jesus Christ's first words to the paralytic were "your sins are forgiven."
May we who have been brought closer to you, Jesus by those kind of people be persistent too in bringing others who are lost closest to you.
Likewise, forgive us Father for those many occasions we have become so insistent with our desires and plans that we have become unreasonable in our devotion and "panata", hurting others in the process without realizing it is actually a turning away from you like the people who insisted in being given with a king to rule over them. Amen.
