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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: 01. 13. 20

Today’s Reflection: We can’t always see where the road leads but God promises there is something better up ahead, we just have to trust Him.— Unattributed.
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: 01. 12. 20

Today’s Reflection: For me prayer is walking. Every step is a prayer. The way unfolds, and all it asks is trust and humility. The road always leads home. Step by step. — Ailsa Piper, pilgrim.
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: 01. 11. 20

Today’s Reflection: Help me, Lord, to see your presence more clearly in my life each and every day.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Today’s Reflection and photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.

Morning Offering: 01. 10. 20

Today’s Reflection: Good morning and thank you, Lord, for this chance to shine!
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Today’s Reflection and photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.

Morning Offering: 01. 09. 20

Today’s Reflection: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr.
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: 01. 08. 20

Today’s Reflection: Praise time – Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. — Traditional prayer.
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: 01. 07. 20

Today’s Reflection: There’s a difference between walking the path and knowing the path. — Unattributed.
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: 01. 06. 20

Today’s Reflection: A mantra for the new year – Help me find ways to build your Kingdom of justice, peace and love here on Earth.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Today’s Reflection and photo by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.

Morning Offering: 01. 05. 20

Today’s Reflection: What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond creates ripples that spread out in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. — Dorothy Day.
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by by Joe Barkovich.
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.

Morning Offering: 01. 03. 20

Today’s Reflection: O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console… — St. Francis of Assisi, Peace Prayer, excerpt.
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.