September 11, 2015

TODAY’S  DATE

Every date has its own importance.

Today: it’s someone’s birthday

or someone’s deathday or it’s

someone’s anniversary or it’s a

day like today - September 11^th,

when 14 years ago those of us

who were alive and adults that day

remember what happened and how

it changed our ways of thinking and being.

Who knew what was to happen that date?

Who knew about December 7^th, 1941 -

Pearl Harbor - and how that changed

our way of thinking or August 6^th 1945

at Hiroshima or 3 days later, August 9^th,

at Nagasaki, days that also changed us?

God give us pause to realize with dread

and awe and “Uh oh!” feelings that each

day and each moment is filled with mystery -

as we crawl along on the spider web of time.

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2015