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About fromareportersnotebook

Former reporter and city editor at The Tribune, Welland, On. Active in various community groups and initiatives, married with two grown children, interested in roses specifically and gardening in general. A collection of previously-written columns was published in book form in the fall of 2013 and is available by contacting the writer at: fromareportersnotebook@gmail.com. It sells for $20.

Morning Offering: 10. 06. 25

Today’s Reflection: Lord, help us to understand it’s OK to take time for ourselves. It’s OK to change our minds. It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to speak up for ourselves. It’s OK to BE ourselves. — Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration 

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.     

Morning Offering: 10. 05. 25

Today’s Reflection: What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtained three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.— St. Francis of Assisi   

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.  

Morning Offering: 10. 04. 25

Today’s Reflection: While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.— St. Francis of Assisi  

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.     

Morning Offering: 10. 03. 25

Today’s Reflection: Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time.— Warren W. Wiersbe

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.     

Morning Offering: 10. 02. 25

Today’s Reflection: There is a beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner cycle of grace in honoring the cycles of life.— Jack Kornfield. 

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: Reflection repeated in response to a request.

Morning Offering: 10. 01. 25

Today’s Reflection: Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. —Pope Francis, in his first encyclical, Lumen Fidei 

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.     

Morning Offering: 09. 30. 25

Today’s Reflection: Eye of God look upon me, see me in your grace

Hand of God grasp me, keep me in my place

Heart of God love me, help me to survive

Power of God surround me, as with life I strive. — Author unknown

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.     

Morning Offering: 09. 29. 25

Today’s Reflection: Blessed are you, Lord God of the universe,
who give us peace to overcome our fear,
who have redeemed us from our way of being distant from you,
who have called us by name,
and who have thus claimed us as your beloved.

Open our eyes, Lord, help us to see as you;
open our hands, Lord, help us to reach out as you,
open our hearts, Lord, help us to love as you. —Fr. Glen Chun, SJ 

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.     

Morning Offering: 09. 28. 25

Today’s Reflection: When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. — Unknown  

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.     

Morning Offering: 09. 27. 25

Today’s Reflection: In you, Father all-mighty, we have our preservation and our bliss.
In you, Christ, we have our restoring and our saving.
You are our mother, brother, and Saviour.
In you, our Lord the Holy Spirit, is marvelous and plenteous grace.
You are our clothing; for love you wrap us and embrace us.
You are our maker, our lover, our keeper.
Teach us to believe that by your grace all shall be well, and all shall be well,
and all manner of things shall be well. Amen — Julian of Norwich 

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.