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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Monday, Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, Year I, 03 March 2025 Sirach 17:20-24 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Mark 10:17-27
To the penitent God provides a way back, he encourages those who are losing hope and has chosen for them the lot of truth. Return to him and give up sin, pray to the Lord and make your offenses few (Sirach 17:20).
In that long poem by your faithful French writer Charles Peguy (1873-1914), you claimed O God that hope is your favorite virtue because it surprises you.
How lovely, dear Father to imagine you our God, all-powerful all-knowing is still surprised, something we have lost in this time when everything is predictable, nothing ever hidden.
Many times I see myself that young man in the Gospel running to you in Jesus, excitedly asking what must I do to inherit eternal life? But, when you answered and asked me to give up my possessions, I balk, I turn away sadly because I just can't give up all I have.
But, then comes your greatest surprise of all when we reject you, when we turn away from you: you still look at us filled with love! There is always hope in you, Lord if we can just go back to you in Jesus; there is always hope in this world, in this life because you never run out of surprises for us because "all things are possible for God" (Mark 10:27). Amen.
