April 10, 2021
STEPS
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Friday, April 9, 2021
Thursday, April 8, 2021
April 8, 2021
READING FROM A DISTANCE
Lunch - all alone - in the middle
of a small luncheonette – people
together at a dozen different tables.
Ooops! I forgot my newspaper so I began
to read the faces of the people around me.
Jaws. Eyes. Watch or phone watchers.
Smile. Scowl. Okay. Not okay.
I wonder what people are doing
behind their skin - their mask.
Is anyone watching me. Is anyone
wondering what’s behind my face –
inside the refrigerator of my soul?
of a small luncheonette – people
together at a dozen different tables.
to read the faces of the people around me.
Jaws. Eyes. Watch or phone watchers.
I wonder what people are doing
behind their skin - their mask.
wondering what’s behind my face –
inside the refrigerator of my soul?
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
April 7, 2021
MY MOM
My sister Mary called today and
said, “It’s mom’s anniversary.
“Ooooh!”
said, “It’s mom’s anniversary.
It’s April 7th.
I had forgotten.
Hit and run – on her
way to church and then work.
Today, April 7, 1987.
and they suggested,
“Listen to Irish music.”
It didn’t work.
"When?"
©
Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
April 6, 2021
SOPHIE SCHOLL
THE WHITE ROSE
I don’t know what I would say
if I knew I was to die in the morning.
Executed …. Beheaded
if I knew I was to die in the morning.
Executed …. Beheaded
along with her brother Hans -
he 24 - she at the age of 21 -
for standing up
against the Nazi’s in 1943.
Would I be brave?
Would I scream?
Would I wet my pants?
Would I say what Sophie Scholl said,
“Such a fine sunny day and
I have to go. But what does my death matter
if through it thousands of people
are stirred to action?”
Hope that still happens - where there is horror.
for standing up
against the Nazi’s in 1943.
Would I be brave?
Would I scream?
Would I wet my pants?
Would I say what Sophie Scholl said,
“Such a fine sunny day and
I have to go. But what does my death matter
if through it thousands of people
are stirred to action?”
Hope that still happens - where there is horror.
Where am I called to action?
Look her up on line: Sophie Scholl.
Look her up on line: Sophie Scholl.
Listen to what she still has to say
on this beautiful day.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
April 6, 2021
Thought
for the Day
“People
who are far from God think they are very near to him, when they begin to take a
few steps to approach him. The most polite
and most enlightened people have the same stupidity about this as a peasant who
thinks he is really at court, because he has seen the king.”
Francois Fenelon
Monday, April 5, 2021
April 5, 2021
AT THE EDGE OF THE OCEAN
I stand here at the edge of the ocean,
so small, so hesitant, so little, so me,
knowing out there is so much
more,
whales, turtles, dolphins, mackerels,
and wave after wave after wave
at my feet.
Comparisons – are the great
teachers
that teach me. I look out and
see five big
container ships on the horizon.
At night
I see the moon rising out of the
ocean.
I see the sun rising out of
ocean in the morning.
Where do you live? What is it teaching you?
Besides this ocean edge, I’ve
lived in the great
mid-west – seeing wave after
wave of corn
and wheat and soybeans learning
the value
of farmers and hard work and the
need for water.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
Sunday, April 4, 2021
April 4, 2021 - Easter Sunday
EASTER
Easter doesn’t always have to happen
the way it’s always supposed to
happen.
Surprise! Beggars – the homeless
–
might just discover a new way to
do life.
Alcoholics, gamblers, drug
addicts,
might get into a program and
recover.
A marriage that has crumbled and
died
might discover Easter can happen
to them.
Graves can open up on this side of
the grave
and Easter can appear with new
Good News.
©
Andy Costello, Reflections 2021
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