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.
Today’s Reflection: Grant us the grace, we pray O Lord, to listen to even voices that we consider strange or unfamiliar. May we exhaust one another with our listening, with our recognition, with our validation. May we never hesitate to hear your own voice within the words or cries of another. — Patrick Hyland, SJ
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Today’s Reflection: Lord Jesus, I trust in you. When I begin to doubt, increase my faith, so that I can remain rooted in your fidelity toward me. Amen. —Jesuit Prayer site
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Today’s Reflection: Today, Lord, I choose to believe in you – not to try to go it alone – but to believe in your loving care for me…
Today, Lord, I choose to trust in you – not to stress out in fear and panic – but to trust that you’re always right by my side…
Today, Lord, I choose to live by your Word – not by my whims and fancies – but by the wisdom and truth of your Word…
Today, Lord, I choose to walk your path – following your map and not my own – ’til I find you within me as well as beside me… — Fr. Austin Fleming, excerpt from “Today I Choose”
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich, who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.
Note: Starting off the new year with a personal favourite:
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire, and I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I will trust you always though I may need to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. — Thomas Merton, OCSO
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:Happy New Year to readers and followers of Morning Offering. God bless!
Today’s Reflection: The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for all that He, in His goodness, sends to us day after day. — St. Gianna Molla
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:Happy New Year to readers and followers of Morning Offering. God bless!