My Soul Rejoices

Living in Honduras so far has had many, many challenges.  The struggles are present and very real to me.  I am blessed to have these struggles because they are forcing me to grow closer and closer to our loving Father and trust in His amazing Son.  However, sometimes those struggles bring out a not-so-good version of myself.  I recognize some of these as my personality traits when I get frustrated and I have been actively trying to work on them.  In these moments of weakness, I have definitely fallen away from acting with kindness in all things.

As Catholics, we are blessed with the wonderful gift of confession.  Growing up confession was never something I liked or even really understood.  But as I have grown older, I truly begun to feel the loving embrace of God through the sacrament.  Today, I was blessed to have the opportunity to go to confession with one of the Friars here with the CFRs.  I am so thankful for the opportunity to ask for repentance and receive such wonderful graces from God.  Immediately after confession, I had the ability to pray in front of the tabernacle and my soul felt overjoyed with love from my Father.

I would like to encourage all of you, if you haven't gone to confession in a while to seek out this wonderful gift that we have been given.  Most parishes offer it each weekend.  It is such a beautiful way to feel the redeeming love of our amazing God!