Friday, December 25, 2020

  December  26, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.”

Sigrid Undset




December  25,  2020


PEOPLE   WATCHING

 
I am the baby in that crib.
 
I am Mary feeding that kid.
 
I am Joseph guarding this family.
 
I am the shepherds discovering this kid.
 
I am the kings lead from afar by a star.
 
I am the donkey, the sheep, the goat,
and the cow, not knowing who is this kid.
 
I am mother, father, brother, sister,
when you see me, you’ll see yourself.
 
People watch and you’ll start to see what
this baby saw: each other in each other.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020


  December  25,  2020


Christmas Story


Andy

December  25, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”


Steve Maraboli,
Unapologetically You:
Reflections on Life and
the Human Experience



Thursday, December 24, 2020

December  24, 2020 

CHRISTMAS  EVE
 
The one thing to do each
Christmas Eve is to sit.
 
I know it’s difficult
with so much to do.
 
But sit! Sit with each
other for a moment.
 
Mary and Joseph did it.
“Phew. We have a place.”
 
The baby will come.
And all will be well.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020


December  24, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“To me was shown no harder hell than sin.”

 

Juliana of Norwich


Wednesday, December 23, 2020

December  23,  2020



LEANINGS
 
After 65 – before or after –
we learn that others have their
leanings – like - liking chocolate
chip cookies or racism or being
on the far right or far left or they
avoid talking politics in the first
place or knowing who’s running
hurt or whom to remain silent 
with – because they haven’t
figured out life or themselves yet.
That’s all. We all have our leanings.
 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 

December   23, 2020

 


Thought for Today

 

 “A filing cabinet is a place where things get lost alphabetically.”

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

December  22, 2020



YOU  NEVER  KNOW
 
You never know who the other person is.
 
You never know what their job is.
 
You never know who their kids are.
 
You never know where they are from.
 
You never know – if they wrote a book.
 
You never know if they ever played BINGO.
 
You never know till you ask them questions.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020


December
 22, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”  

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

Monday, December 21, 2020

December 21, 2020

 


THE BIG PICTURE

 

2020 wasn’t all bad!
Tonight and these nights
near Christmas – Jupiter
and Saturn – are within 0.1
degrees to each other.
 
Yet they are 450 million miles apart.
The last time this happened
was 800 years ago and the next
time is going to be 2080. Not bad,
but I won’t be alive in 2080.
 
So tonight - obviously - I was out
there looking into the southwest sky. 
Ugh! All was cloudy.  All was gray.
Yet I knew from what I read, like life,
what I wasn’t seeing was right there.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020


December  21, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 


“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”   



Friedrich Nietzsche


Sunday, December 20, 2020

 December 20, 2020


 

SILENCE 

The space after a comment -
sometimes it lingers for a second –
sometimes for the whole day or life.
 
It could be a compliment or
it could be a hurt – that rubs
us like a rasp or # 10 sandpaper.
 
The intent – now that is the question -
or the rub as Shakespeare puts it –
the why he or she said what they said.
 
The big silence is when we don’t talk 
to each other about what happened and
end up never really knowing what happened.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 December  20, 2020

 


Thought for Today

 

“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”  

 

Friedrich Nietzsche