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: I will take the time to experience you in silence, Lord. Help me to be quiet in your presence, that I may learn from you and deepen my experience of wholeness.—from Focus Your Day
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: I am not on my own. There is someone who is more intimately concerned about me than l am about myself. God loves me. — St Oscar Romero, homily, 4th Sunday of Lent (B), 1979
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, work through us, so that those who are broken-hearted may know they are never forgotten, even in the most difficult of times. May they feel the comfort of your presence and your saving love. Amen. — Catholic prayer resource
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, 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; where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen. — Peace Prayer of 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.
Today’s Reflection: May those who seek shelter find it. May those who seek hope find it. May those who seek God, find Him. — 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.
Today’s Reflection: Lord, you are my Master Gardener. Water my being with your love and your grace And cultivate patience within me when I expect rapid growth. Send me rays of Son-light so that I may flourish And produce much good fruit. Prune away my desire for perfection And shape me into the kind of good tree you want me to be. May I be grateful for the unique gifts you have given me and share them with those I meet today. —Diane Amento Owens
Morning Offering is a daily post by Joe Barkovich who lives in his hometown of Welland, Ontario. Daily photo by Joe Barkovich.