July   24,  2020

CRUMBLE

Crumble:

we crumble so we grumble.

Crumble teaches us

we are not God.

Crumble teaches us this

in the crumble of the cookie

in our kitchen

and in our sidewalks

as we walk down the street.

Crumble happens in

the breaking of our toys

and in the wrinkles of our skin,

in the painful arthritis of our bones

as we sink and start to crumble over

downwards back into the earth.

Grave thoughts,

but this reality of being human

can also crumble our pride

till we finally look up 

and cry out for the divine,

WHO made us up out of

mud and clay -

these fragile elements -

in the first place

in our mothers womb –

our mother earth -

and this God can

raise us up

on our last day again

Crumble teaches us.

We know we can’t. Amen

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020