Today’s Reflection: I couldn’t understand how He was willing to leave the 99 just to find the one missing, until that one was me. –  Author unknown

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Editor’s note: Scriptural reference, Parable of the Lost Sheep, (Matthew 18: 12-14)

Today’s Reflection: Our true worth does not consist of what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be. – St. John Berchmans  SJ.

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Today’s Reflection: You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. – St. Augustine 

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Today’s Reflection: Lord, may my heart be:

Attuned to Your spirit,

Unwavering of faith,

Guided by Your Word,

Uncompromising in obedience to You,

Sensitive to Your still small voice,

Transformed by You – Heartprints of God

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

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Today’s Reflection: Reflection by St. Thomas More

If you cannot pluck up bad ideas by the root, if you
cannot cure long-standing evils as completely as you
would like, you must not therefore abandon the commonwealth.

Do not give up the ship in a storm because
you cannot direct the winds. And do not arrogantly
force strange ideas on people who you know have set
their minds on a different course from yours. You must
strive to influence policy indirectly, handle the situation
tactfully, and thus what you cannot turn to good, you
may at least make less bad.

For it is impossible to make all institutions good unless
you make all people good, and that I don’t expect to
see for a long time to come.

 – St. Thomas More, Renaissance English Chancellor and Martyr (1478–1535)

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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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Today’s Reflection: Prayer Against Depression

O Christ Jesus
When all is darkness,
And we feel our weakness and helplessness,
Give us the sense of Your Presence,
Your Love and Your Strength.
Help us to have perfect trust,
In Your protecting love,
And strengthening power,
So that nothing may frighten or worry us,
For, living close to You,
We shall see Your Hand,
Your Purpose, Your Will through all things – Xavier University prayer site

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Today’s Reflection: HERMIT RULES 23 & 24...

23. God alone suffices. Be open to the Mystery. Authentic silence draws you to rest, like a child, in the Lord Himself.

24. Silence consists, above all, in being quiet so as to be always ready to receive something greater.  – Bodmin Hermit

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Today’s Reflection: Lightening the Load

The first thing we have to do
is to notice
that we’ve loaded down this camel
with so much baggage
we’ll never get through the desert alive.
Something has to go.

Then we can begin to dump
the thousand things
we’ve brought along
until even the camel has to go
and we’re walking barefoot
on the desert sand.

There’s no telling what will happen then.
But I’ve heard that someone,
walking in this way,
has seen a burning bush.–  Francis Dorff, O. Praem

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