Today’s Reflection: The Cross stands empty in a world grown silent
Through hours of anguish and of dread
In stillness, earth awaits the resurrection,
While Christ goes down to wake the dead.
— from the breviary.
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Today’s Reflection: God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up to suffer for our sake. — Office of Readings, Good Friday.
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Today’s Reflection: All you need is trust! God will not forget you.
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Today’s Reflection: As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. — from Psalm 42.
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Today’s Reflection: Thus we see that silence, which is so important in our growth in newness of life, is no negative barren condition, but the intense activity of creative love, the breath of God at work in the garden of the soul. — Estelle C. Carver, Newness of Life (1956).
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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Today’s Reflection: I’ve seen better days, but I’ve also seen worse. I don’t have everything I want, but I do have all I need. I woke up with some aches and pains, but I woke up. My life may not be perfect, but I am blessed. — Author unknown.
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Today’s Reflection: Prayer
Dear Lord, please bless my eyes that I might see you and the good in another.
Let me only see the best in them and let me cast no stones nor disparage them.
Let the good deeds of another be received with an open heart, for their good works are an opportunity for them to give an account of Christ in their life.
Let me only see the best in them.
God is good all the time – and the goodness of God is eternal. Amen. — Dr. Valerie D. Lewis-Mosley, RN, OPA is a Pastoral Theologian/Spiritual Director, and an adjunct Professor of Theology. She embraces the Ignatian Examen and the Dominican Charism of Preaching to lead others to healing from the trauma of racism and injustice.
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Today’s Reflection: In a frame of mind for this personal fave: 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 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 seem 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. Amen. — Thomas Merton.
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Today’s Reflection: God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me. — Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from The Serenity Prayer, by Reinhold Niebuhr.
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Today’s Reflection: If we try to listen to God, we will hear. — Jesuit prayer site.
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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