Today’s Reflection: Your ‘yes’ to God requires your ‘no’ to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and poor. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Today’s Reflection: Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, all honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran theologian, executed 1945 under Hitler
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Today’s Reflection: Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus — See Luke 2:7
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Today’s Reflection: Loving God, as I meet others along my path today, may I bring laughter to those who weep, healing to those in pain, and peace to those in conflict. Let my heart be grateful for all the ways you are working in me and through me. Amen. — Karen Wuertz
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Today’s Reflection (Fourth Sunday of Advent): Incarnation
We tried in so many ways
to communicate our love.
If communication is not
what you say but
what people hear,
then what we said
was warped and wrenched
into distancing prescriptions
that had no heart.
You asked for food.
We sent manna.
You asked for drink.
Water flowed from the rock.
You asked for directions.
Moses brought the law.
And on and on.
Still you grew
more distant,
more deaf,
more blind.
Memories dulled.
Speech slurred.
Dreams dissolved
into wander dust.
And so we did
what families do
when confronted
with calamity.
We drew straws.
Shorty lost.
He came to share
your plight,
your fight,
your night,
and point you
toward tomorrow. — Michael Moynahan, S.J.
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Today’s Reflection: Lord of Peace, thank You for the gift of quiet moments and the stillness when we can feel Your presence. Bless those who find solace in their solitude, renewing their hearts and minds in the calm of Your love. May they draw strength and inspiration from the silence, hearing Your voice more clearly. Help them to know they are never alone, for You are always with them.— Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
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Today’s Reflection: I surrender to silence. It is in stillness that I can hear what speaks to my soul. — M.G. Williams
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Today’s Reflection: Are you one of the Inn crowd, or one of the Stable few? — Unknown
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Today’s Reflection: I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. — St. Teresa of Calcutta
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Today’s Reflection Lord, we can be a stubborn people. Thank you for your guidance, your teachings, your patience, and your love, for your faithfulness despite our failures to listen and love. Open our ears this Advent to your Word and open our hearts to your Son who again is coming into our lives; help us to get ready to follow Jesus back to you. Amen. — Bill Lipscomb
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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