Monday, February 09, 2015
5th Week in Ordinary Time
1st 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)
If God were to have his way, he’d want us all to be healthy. 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 of their clients to activate these nerve endings and keep the body organs active. God must have designed the human body that way so that, being ambulant by nature, we heal ourselves as we walk.
This theory finds basis in several Gospel passages. He cured all who came to him for healing. He even healed those who could only touch the hem of his clothing. Even those outside the circle of the chosen people experienced his gratuitous healing. Didn’t he give 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”.
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 by 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. Truly “there is no rest for the wicked”! If God were to have his way, he’d want us all to live healthy lives. Unfortunately we are not allowing God to have his way.
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 have grown unhealthy grasses addicting to our youth and destroying their lives. We have also made it difficult for healthy vegetables to grow because of our maltreatment of the environment. 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? – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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