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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. 28. 26

Today’s Reflection: Distance, Silence, Peace

Distance allows you to break free from the noise and limitations.

Silence helps you hear your deepest wisdom.

Peace gives you the clarity to move with purpose. – from a post by Bodmin Hermit

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. 27. 26

Today’s Reflection: I may have been saved once, but I have needed to be found over and over and over again. – Susan Macias

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontari. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich

Morning Offering is posted by 8 a.m.

Morning Offering: 01. 24. 26

Today’s Reflection: Do not be indifferent to the struggles others face. – Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Charity.

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.m.

Morning Offering: 01. 23. 26

Today’s Reflection: If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. – St. Francis of Assisi

Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario, Canada. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.

Morning Offering: 01. 21. 26

Today’s Reflection:  If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice and not a hope. — Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk.

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. 20. 26

Today’s Reflection:

Be kind,

practice grace,

listen,

see the good,

take action.

The world needs you. — Rachel Marie Martin, in Finding Joy

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. 19. 26

Today’s Reflection: Loosen the Bonds of Suffering

May all beings everywhere
plagued with sufferings of body and mind
quickly be freed from their illnesses.

May those frightened cease to be afraid,
and may those bound be free.

May the powerless find power,
and may people think of befriending one another. — Traditional Buddhist 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. 18. 26

Today’s Reflection: To The Great Spirit

Grandfather Great Spirit,
all over the world the faces of living ones are alike.

With tenderness they have come up out of the ground.
Look upon your children that they may face the winds and walk the good road to the Day of Quiet.

Grandfather Great Spirit,
fill us with the Light.

Give us the strength to understand,
and the eyes to see.

Teach us to walk the soft earth as relatives to all that live. – Lakota 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. 17. 26

Today’s Reflection: St, Augustine’s Powerful Prayer For Bravery

God of our life,
There are days when the burdens we carry
chafe our shoulders and weigh us down;
when the road seems dreary and endless,
the skies grey and threatening;
when our lives have no music in them,
and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage.
Flood the path with light, turn our eyes to where the skies are full of promise;
tune our hearts to brave music;
give us the sense of comradeship
with heroes and saints of every age;
and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage
the souls of all who journey with us
on the road of life,
to your honor and glory. Amen. — St. Augustine

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.