Daily Reflection with Fr. Tomas Del Valle-Reyes
Dear Friends: Praying is not easy. Our daily routine calls for our full attention. And the world around us puts little value on prayer; our lives are full of material things but at the same time are getting emptier in God’s value.
For this reason, I will post a daily reflection and as you visit this site may the Holy Spirit within you come to your aid and guide you gently to the God who loves you.
Lord, I know my tongue often gets ahead of my mind and
heart.
I am quick to speak, and I repent of the many thoughtless things I have spoken.
I am sorry for the words I have spoken in anger or in gossip.
Please help me to see when I am about to speak without thinking and to check my heart. Help me be slow to speak.
Help me Lord to be a person full of loving words, full of your Spirit, overflowing with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control.
Amen. Padre Tomas Del Valle-Reyes
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Gracious God, my heart is heavy with my own failures.
I try to excuse them and explain to myself why they occurred, because I want to
be free from the feeling that I am unworthy and incapable of being all that I can be.
But I find it easier to accept your forgiveness than to forgive myself.
When I try to forgive myself, it seems I only remember and re-play my failures in my mind, and a sense of hopelessness floods over me.
Help me to know that my past actions are a part of my growing humanity and that even when I fail to live up to what is your will for me, every single moment can be lived anew.
Remind me that refusing to forgive myself only keeps me from experiencing that newness.
Assure me of the truth that by casting “my sins into the depth of the sea” (Micah 7:19b), you have freed me to discard them myself and live the next moment as if it were my first—for indeed it is.
I ask this for the sake of your love.
Amen.
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