The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Thursday in the Twenty-first Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 31 August 2023 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13 ><))))*> + <*((((>< Matthew 24:42-51
I just realized today while praying your words, O Lord, from St. Paul the true meaning of goodbye: it is not really an end but beginning of another meeting, of another coming together. How lovely is St. Paul's prayer to the early Christians he had not seen for so long!
Now may God himself, our Father, and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you, and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we have for you, so as to strengthen your hearts, to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy one. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 3:11-13
Teach me to live in the present moment, Lord; let me savor the beauty and joy of each moment, of each day filled with life; let me celebrate the presence of every person I meet and enable them too to celebrate life in you; let me not waste my life awaiting for your coming or return, awaiting for my own end and death for every here and now is also my last moment. Goodbye, O Lord, is not departure but coming together again, until we meet again. Wherever, whenever. Even in forever. Amen.
