REDEMPTION

Freedom, feeling at peace, 

have decided to drop a fishing net 

full of fears – arthritis, dementia, 
the possible impossible virus, 
the unknown nexts - as well as being  
unable to control the waterboarding  
feel of some conversations. It’s Sabbath  
and sometimes I want to get off this phone. 

Then there is eternal redemption – 

the complete letting go in death - 
putting my life in surgeons'  hands -  

letting God be resurrection 

and new life – the possible dawn 

in the eternal not knowing if 
and what's on the other side of  

the forever and ever. Amen. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

3rd Sunday in July, 

Holy Redeemer Sunday

 for Redemptorists