Living our lives to the full

February 06, 2017
5th Week in Ordinary Time
1 Reading: Gen 1:1-19
Gospel: Mk 6:53–56
Having crossed the lake, they came ashore at Gennesaret where they tied up the boat. As soon as they landed, people recognized Jesus and ran to spread the news throughout the countryside. Wherever he was they brought to him the sick lying on their mats. And wherever he went, to villages, towns or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplace and begged him to let them touch just the fringe of his cloak. And all who touched him were cured.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
“And all who touched him were cured” (Mark 6:56). If God were to have his way, he’d want us all to live healthy lives. Look at how he designed our feet. Reflexology therapists tell us that all nerve endings of vital body organs are concentrated at the feet. That is why they apply pressure on the feet to activate these nerve endings and keep the body organs active. God must have designed the human body that way so that by mere walking we keep ourselves in shape. If God were to have his way, he’d all want us to be healthy.
This theory finds basis in several Gospel passages. In today’s Gospel, for example, all sick people who came to him he healed without discrimination. Even those outside the circle of the chosen people experienced his gratuitous healing. Recall how he finally gave in to the request of the Canaanite woman to have him cast the devil out of her daughter (Matt. 15:27). To the blind man who told Jesus “If you will to do so you can cure me”, Jesus replied, “I do will it, be cured”. If God were to have his way, he’d like all of us to live healthy lives.
But while God would like us to live healthy lives we squander our health in a life of self indulgence. Our eating habits have evolved as food technology continues to flood the supermarket with toxic food products promoted through deceptive ads. Science teaches us that the ideal sleeping time is around 9:00 p.m. because that is the time the body begins to replenish dead cells. But we have invented artificial lights that prolong the day and shorten our restful nights.
Compare your teeth with the teeth of cows. The fact that they do not differ much suggests that like cows we too are meant to eat grass (vegetables), not meat. But we made vegetables scarce by poisoning the soil of our lands and maltreating the environment. Instead of vegetables we have grown marijuana instead to the destruction of our young people. We are squandering our health, frustrating God’s desire that we live healthy lives.
What right do we have then to run to God for healing? – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM.
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