October 31, 2020

 

TRICK  OR  TREAT?

 

Why not both?
Why not be a surprise?
Why not treat every person as a treat?
Why not come up with tricks to make
    the other feel, “Wow this person is
    paying me attention and respect?”
Why not be both treat and trick?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 October 31, 2020

Thought for Today

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”

 

John Stuart Mill

October 30, 2020

THE TEST OF TIME 

 

An unwanted phone call ….

Being corrected ….

Wishing he would shut up ….

Prayers … Sermons …Church stuff ….

Listening to a guy who repeats his stories ….

A  meal with boiled potatoes ….

The house after a spouse dies ….

Being dropped …. and you don’t know why?

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

October 30, 2020

 Thought for Today

 

“Any idiot can face a crisis.  It is day to day living that wears us out.”

 

Anton Chekhov

October 29, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Extremists think that ‘communication’ means arguing with them.”

 

Leo Rosten

October 29,  2020

 LOOKING  AROUND

 

I saw you come in the front door,
look around, then walk to the back,
look around, check the back yard,
look around, and then leave by
the front door I saw you come in.
 
I’ve often wondered about you through
the years.  Did you ever find who or
what you were looking for or are 
you still walking in and out of houses
and are you sill looking around?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 October 28, 2020

 

REWRITING  THE  RULES

 

Most of our rules and regulations are
from someone and somewhere else.
 
Then as we get older we climb the
mountain and come up with and then
come down with our own two or three
commandments – to define our life.
 
Some go up and then come down
without God – only to find out they
have to go up again to find God –
otherwise they only have half a life.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

October 28, 2020

 

Thought for Today

“ … out of the quarrel  with ourselves we make poetry.”

 

W.B.  Yeats

October  27,   2020

 

REJECTED

 Most are rejected.

 
We  drive away from the car dealer
with just one car  - all the rest watch
with envy – and hope – as the next
customer comes in the door.
 
Most are rejected.
 
We take one donut and one cup of
coffee as we walk through the train
station – heading for work and some
donuts sit there all day.
 
Most are selected.
 
We talk to one person about
last night’s game. There are other
people in the room who have
lots of other interests.
 
Most or our ideas are rejected.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 

October 27, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Religion: A process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year.”

 

Austin O’Malley

 October  26,  2020

COMPARISON

 

Comparison is a tricky gift.

Be careful with it – because

it’s been used by Pharisees

and Publicans in both temple

and market place. And Jesus ….

 

Jesus used comparisons.

 

Warning: there is something

in us that causes us to compare

ourselves to others – as a way

to avoid being the wheat field

and vineyard we are called to be.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 October 26, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 “Sixty years ago I knew everything;  now I know nothing;  education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

 

Will Durant

October 25, 2020

 

REMAINS

 

The tiniest crumb on the table ….
You were here ….

 
Some warmth in the chair ….
You just left ….
 
A scar on my memory ….
You said something that really hurt ….
 
A call on the answering machine ….
You tried to reach me ….
 
A postcard on the refrigerator door ….
You were thinking of me in Barcelona ….
 
The light on the side of the house was lit ….
You left a signal in the night for my return ….
 
Your ashes remain in a mahogany box ….
You died 8 months ago today ….

 

 

© Andy Costello,  Reflections 2020

 October 25, 2020

 

Thought for Today

“Reformer: Someone who rides through a sewer in a glass bottomed boat.”  

James J. Walker