Written in our hearts

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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II
Thursday, Memorial of St. Dominic, Priest, 08 August 2024
Jeremiah 31:31-34     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Matthew 16:13-23

Graffiti: a writing or drawings on a wall
or other surface, usually without permission
and within public view.

Writings on the wall: an idiom that means
to say something will fail or something
unpleasant will happen like during the time
King Belshazzar when there appeared 
writings on the wall of Babylon's impending
end (see Daniel 5:1-30).

The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will place my law within them, and write it uppn their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people (Jeremiah 31:31, 33).

How lovely,
O God our Father,
You chose to write your covenant
on our hearts-
not on the walls
nor documents
that often spell danger
and disaster
or doom and endings;
how lovely
to simply just look
inside our hearts to find
You and your covenant,
O God;
no need to look out
or look up
or look down
and see dirt
and chaos.

Your writing
on our hearts is simple,
noble and reassuring:
You shall be our God,
we are your people;
when Jesus came,
He gave us His heart
to visibly make
that writing,
that covenant
simply the word LOVE.
Many times,
we cannot find
your laws,
your writing on our hearts
because we have covered
them with so many other gods;
very often,
Jesus comes to us
asking us the same question
to the Twelve,
"But who do you say
that I am?"
but we are so busy
with our many pursuits in life,
reading the many writings
on the wall and pavements
of our sick world.

Cleanse our hearts, Lord
to truly give You our
sincere answers
and remember your
covenant of love
written on our hearts.
Amen.

St. Dominic De Guzman,
Pray for us!