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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: 08. 04. 18

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Today’s Reflection: What does love look like?
It has the hands, to help others.
It has the feet, to hasten to the poor and needy.
It has eyes, to see misery and want.
It has the ears, to hear the sighs and sorrows of all.
That, is what love looks like. Amen. – Saint Augustine
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich. (Image: Sixth Station, Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus, Parish Community of St. Kevin.)
Morning Offering is posted by 8 a. m.

Morning Offering: 08. 03. 18

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Today’s Reflection: Workers are always needed in the Lord’s vineyard. Are you one?…Will you be one?
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: 08. 02. 18

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Today’s Reflection: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
And where there is sadness, joy.
—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: 08. 01. 18

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Today’s Reflection: When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. — from Isaiah 43:2.
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: 07. 31. 18

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Today’s Reflection: If you need someone to just listen, then just pray. — 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. daily.

Morning Offering: 07. 30. 18

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Today’s Reflection: Don’t judge the ‘stranger’ until you’ve tried walking in his shoes.
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. daily.

Morning Offering: 07. 29. 18

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Today’s Reflection: Text stop? So reassuring to know you can talk to our Lord whenever, wherever you want.
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. daily.

Morning Offering: 07. 28. 18

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Today’s Reflection: How lovely the silence of growing things.
— 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: 07. 27. 18

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Today’s Reflection: Follow your own path and you’ll get lost. Follow His and you won’t. — 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: 07. 25. 18

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Today’s Reflection: 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.