The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Wednesday in the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 06 September 2023 Colossians 1:1-8 ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> Luke 4:38-44
My dearest Jesus, my Lord and my God, how often have I tried to have you solely as mine, trying to keep you for myself, refusing to share you with others, forgetting the inverse truth that to have you is actually to give you, to share you with others?
At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, “To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.”
Luke 4:42-43
Teach me, dear Jesus to be like Simon's mother-in-law: after being healed by you, "she immediately got up and waited on them" (Lk. 4:39); teach me to be attached to you, close to you but never to cling to you in a way that prevents others from experiencing you. Like St. Paul who freely trusted other fellow workers in your vineyard, let me enrich others' faith by graciously sharing you with them so that they too may share you to more other people to experience your love and mercy, your joy of salvation. Amen.
