Be Gentle

**Sit quietly, eyes closed and in silence for one minute before reading.**
 
    Be gentle to yourself today. You treat yourself harsher than others. You do not perform up to an expectation and you attack yourself with the most unkind words and thoughts.

    Be gentle with yourself, be patient. Expect that you will not meet all your expectations or the expectations of others. When you fail, be gentle with yourself and remember the gentleness with which God cares for you.

    Be gentle.

**Sit again in silence for as long as is available to you.**