Morning Offering: 01. 11. 26

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Today’s Reflection: Prayer

Lord Jesus, when you walked the earth,

Your humility obscured your Kingship.

Your meekness confused the arrogant,

Hindering them from grasping your purpose —

Your nobleness attending to the destitute.

Teach me to model after your eminence,

To subject my nature to humility.

Grant me with a natural inclination

To never view myself greater than anyone.

Banish all lingering sparks of self-importance

That could elevate me greater than you.

Let my heart always imitate your humility.— A Christian Prayer for the Virtue of Humility, author unknown.

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Morning Offering: 1. 10. 26

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Today’s Reflection:  Those who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless.— St. Oscar Romero  

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Morning Offering: 01. 09. 26

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Today’s Reflection: 

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each, I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints; other times there was only one.

During the low periods of my life I could see only one set of footprints, so I said, “You promised me, Lord, that you would walk with me always. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?”

The Lord replied, “The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when I carried you.”

—Footprints in the Sand, often attributed to Mary Stevenson

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Morning Offering: 01. 08. 26

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Today’s Reflection:  Prayer for Peace

Lead me from death to life,

from falsehood to truth.

Lead me from despair to hope,

from fear to truth.

Lead me from hate to love,

from war to peace.

Let peace fill my heart, my world, my universe.

Amen,

—Pax Christi, from Loyola Kids Book of Everyday Prayers

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Morning Offering: 01. 07. 26

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Today’s Reflection:  Morning Prayer

Lord of life,

Help me to live this day Quietly, Easily;

To lean on your strength, Trustfully, Restfully;

To wait for the unfolding of your will Patiently, Serenely;

To meet others Peacefully, Joyously;

To face this day Confidently, Courageously.

— St. Francis of Assisi

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Morning Offering: 01. 06. 26

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Today’s Reflection:  Lord, I keep stumbling. Please help me find my balance with your strength and your love. — Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

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Morning Offering: 01. 05. 26

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Today’s Reflection:  Prayer

Lord God,
Too often when I don’t notice,
I make myself too large – a king of my kingdom –
and nothing else seems to matter until I handle
just one more matter to settle things,
and this goes on and on and on and on.

But then, in rare moments, I see you face-to-face
and I shrink so small before your glory –
how could I ever have pretended or forgotten my way
into becoming so big? 

But you, Lord, want neither.
You raise me up from my smallness;
you call me, and
You want my bigness – but my true bigness,
my dignity, my gifts, my very best –
and you want me to put it
at your service
at the service of those,
who, by decree of the kings,
are condemned to feeling small,
forgotten, excluded, marginal.

Show me Lord, my best,
and show me where to give it,
like at a manger of migrants from Nazareth or further south,
bearing hope and little else,
until they, too, discover their bigness
before and because of you. Amen. —Fr. Garrett Gundlach, SJ

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Morning Offering: 01. 04. 26

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Today’s Reflection:  Prayer

Lord, 

Help me to remember
what words can do:

They can hurt
They can invoke fear
They can divide

Help me to remember
what words can also do:

They can heal
They can invoke wonder
They can unite

It is so easy to be the first kind of voice in this world. 

But I know that is not who
I was created to be.

Speak through me, Lord,
So I am the second kind of voice instead.

Speak through all of us, Lord,
So that the voice of love will win.

Amen. — Gretchen Crowder  

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Morning Offering: 01. 03. 26

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Today’s Reflection:  Lord, You know the ache of absence and the silence that lingers in our hearts. Comfort those who miss someone dearly — fill the emptiness with your peace. Hold those close in their sorrow and remind them that love never truly ends. — Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.

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Morning Offering: 01. 02. 26

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Today’s Reflection: Drenched in Holiness Prayer: Prayer for a New Year    

Dear God,
On this day I ask You to grant this request,
May I know who I am and what I am,
Every moment of every day.
May I be a catalyst for light and love,
And bring inspiration to those whose eyes I meet.
May I have the strength to stand tall in the face of conflict,
And the courage to speak my voice, even when I’m scared.
May I have the humility to follow my heart,
And the passion to live my soul’s desires.
May I seek to know the highest truth
And dismiss the gravitational pull of my lower self.
May I embrace and love the totality of myself,
My darkness as well as my light.
May I be brave enough to hear my heart,
To let it soften so that I may gracefully
Choose faith over fear.
Today is my day to surrender anything that stands
Between the sacredness of my humanity and my divinity.
May I be drenched in my Holiness
And engulfed by Your love.
May all else melt away.
And so it is. —   Debbie Ford  

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

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