UNEXPECTED WORDS

It’s these unplanned unexpected conversations
that bring a relationship, a family,
a parish, a friendship together,
like last Sunday when you and I
just happened to come out of church at the same time.
We just began to talk, standing there by our cars.
Or like that shopping trip last Saturday.
We didn’t decide to go together, but we did,
and we spoke the kind of words
that glue people together – hearing what the other feels.
As they say, “Thank God the electricity went out!
We really hadn’t talked to each other in years.
Yes, we need the meetings and the meals,
but it’s these unexpected moments at doorways
or when things fail, that we open up the doors.

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2009