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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. 09. 25

Today’s Reflection: If you begin and finish your days with thoughts of gratitude, you’ll find yourself living from a place of abundance rather than lack. Those first and final moments set the tone for the many minutes that fall in between. — Erica Layne

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. 08. 25

Today’s Reflection: What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. — Rumi 

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. 07. 25

Today’s Reflection: Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.— Thomas Merton  

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. 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.