May 15, 2021

GETTING  OLDER

I don't see too many senior citizens
wearing back packs - but it helps
if they carry with them patience,
laughter, their glasses and their
hearing aids  - plus a smile.

Faith, hope and charity ought
to be packed into their outlook -
along with the ability to tell only
one story a time - because the 
older we get, the more we got. Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 May 15,  2021

Thought for the Day

“Instead of thinking outside the box, just get rid of it.”

 

Unknown

May  14,  2021

NON-STOP OCEAN

 

The ocean is non-stop –
constant – sliding into
and onto our beach.
 
Sometimes the waves
are pounding, pushing,
jumping, leaping at us.
 
Sometimes all is calm:
the slow slide of waves –
calming moving in and out.
 
The ocean – does it ever
get a chance to say to God,
“Is this the way you want it?”
 
Or does God say, “Just do it.
Surprise all of us. Whatever,
but make it all interesting.”

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

May  14,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Love is the crocodile on the river of desire.”

Bhartrihari (570-651)

May 13,  2021 

WHO  SAID?

  

Who said you can’t make mistakes?

 

Who said you can’t forgive?

 

Who said you can’t say, “I don’t know.”

 

Who said you can’t say, “Let me think about that?”

 

Who said you can’t recover?

 

Who said you can’t begin again?

 

Who said you can’t say, “Who said?”

 

 

                                                                                                      © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 May   12,  2021 

GOOD  THING HE  WASN’T  MURDERED

 
Every time I hear on the news
or see in the newspapers that
someone was murdered, I say,
“No!”  When I see scenes of
the Nazi concentration camps
being opened, I reflect on
Victor Emil Frankel who survived.
 
He taught us the need in life
to search for meaning. He
taught us about the need to
want to continue – to know
there are people waiting for
me – that we have a why and
any how to proclaim it counts.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

May  12,  2021

Thought for the Day

  “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”

 William A. Ward

May 11,  2021

EVERY DAY 

Every day every sort of thing happens.
 
That's what good movies are good for.
 
They can reveal so much about pretend and love.
 
Relationships are all about pretend and love.
 
Watch kids watch adults not watching kids.
 
When they do they miss out on so much reveal.
 
But when they do, when they really love
each other, when they avoid pretend, they can see
the love story - the reveal movie - of their lives.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

May  11,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.”

 

 Norman Vincent Peale

BICYCLE  BUILT  FOR  TWO

 
As they made the bike,
the bicycle built for two,
the bike makers minds' were elsewhere.
They didn’t imagine the couple,
now grey, who would rode that bike
together for 46 years now.
They once told their kids
those Saturday and Sunday rides
kept them together all these years,
but their kids like the bike makers -

didn’t listen – or didn't imagine - 

but one day - one did - when their parents

hit 50 golden years riding through life together.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

May  10,  2021

Thought for the Day

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

Milton Berle

May 9, 2021

 

LINES  ON  THE  ROAD 

Driving down the roads
I see all these lines on the road.
Right lane – left lane –
some right down the middle.
Then there are the off ramps and on ramps.
 
Walking down the street,
I see all these people on both sides of me.
When to stop, when to listen,
when to talk, when to move on.
I guess those lines are hard to see at times.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

May  9,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

 

Albert Ellis