Today’s Reflection:  

Note: Starting off the new year with a personal favourite:

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end. 

Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so. 

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. 

I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire,
and I know that if I do this
you will lead me by the right road
though I may know nothing about it. 

Therefore I will trust you always
though I may need to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. — Thomas Merton, OCSO  

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.

Note: Happy New Year to readers and followers of Morning Offering. God bless!