Today’s Reflection:  A Prayer for Compassion

O God, I wish from now on

to be the first to become conscious

of all that the world loves, pursues, and suffers;

I want to be the first to seek,

to sympathize, and to suffer;

the first to unfold and sacrifice myself,

to become more widely human

and more nobly of the earth

than any of the world’s servants. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. (1881–1955)

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.