Morning Offering: 01. 03. 24

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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.

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Morning Offering: 01. 02. 24

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 Today’s Reflection:  I opened two gifts this morning: My eyes. Thank you God. — BOCA Recovery Centre 

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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Morning Offering: 01. 01. 24

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Today’s Reflection:  

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.

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Note: Happy New Year to readers and followers of Morning Offering. God bless!

Morning Offering: 12. 31. 23

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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.

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Note: Happy New Year to readers and followers of Morning Offering. God bless!

Morning Offering: 12. 30. 23

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Today’s Reflection:  The Christmas season is a reminder of what theologians often call the “Great Reversal,” which lies at the heart of the Christian message: The virgin bears a son. The infant is a king. The poor are rich.  The blind see.  The lame walk.  The deaf hear.  The hungry are fed.  The humbled are exalted.  The last are first.  The stranger is our friend.  Those on the margins are in the center.  And, of course, the greatest of all reversals, made manifest at the true end of the Christmas story, which is the Resurrection: the dead live.  And nothing is impossible with God.  Merry Christmas. — Fr. James Martin SJ

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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Morning Offering: 12. 29. 23

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Today’s Reflection:  Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. — Madeleine L’Engle

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Morning Offering: 12. 28. 23

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Today’s Reflection:  It is not life that causes suffering, but our expectation that life should be the way we want. —  Kodo Sawaki 

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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Morning Offering: 12. 27. 23

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Today’s Reflection:  When I rest with the Lord, peace is a river that overflows my soul. — Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration  

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Morning Offering: 12. 26. 23

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Today’s Reflection:  Christ in the manger, Your humble coming as man fills us with hope that our lives matter, that God is truly with us, and that we are never alone, even in death. You shared our human nature in every way but sin, and so give us hope that we will one day share life in heaven with You. — mycatholiclife

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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Morning Offering: 12. 25. 23

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Today’s Reflection:  Joy to the world, the Lord is come! 

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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Merry Christmas to readers and followers of Morning Offering, Reflections In Word And Image!