Daily Gospel Reflection for July 24, 2025

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

I want to have eyes that see and ears that hear. But I often don’t. When I’m going through a hard time emotionally, my thoughts often cause me to turn inward. I end up replaying the details of the circumstances I can’t solve and the hurt that I can’t find a way to stop. I stop noticing almost anything beyond my own pain. I don’t have eyes to see.

A few years ago, I was going through an intense emotional storm. The pain in my life eclipsed anything else going on around me. On one particular day, I felt like I was drowning in my pain and abandoned by God. I was standing on our backyard deck, but the warmth of the sunny summer day couldn’t permeate the clouds that surrounded my soul.

I was trapped inside of myself until my husband came outside and pointed out the sparrows in our neighbor's yard. I looked up and what must have been a hundred sparrows were flying from our neighbor’s roof to the trees at the edge of his property. Back and forth they all flew, over and over and over again.

I stood there in awe as the words of Matthew 10:29-31 came to mind:

“Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin?
Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.
So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”

I felt that God kept those sparrows flying back and forth until I finally looked up and had eyes to see them. They were a reminder of His truths: that I mattered, that He saw me in my pain, and that He hadn’t abandoned me despite the way I was feeling.

Ponder:

Is there a situation in your life, either now or in the past, when you struggled to see God walking with you in the midst of your pain? How does God help you to see Him when you’re in a painful place?