September 18,  2021

Reflection

September   18,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“A good honest and painful sermon.”

 

Samuel Pepys

 September 17, 2021

Reflection

September   17,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

 “Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.”

 

Dennis Potter [1935-94]

September   16,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“I go into the Muslim mosque and the Jewish synagogue and the Christian church and see one altar.”

 

Jalal Ad-Din Ar Rumi

 

 September 16,  2021

Reflection

September   15,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“A sense of the sacred without a sense of humor becomes laden.”

 

Robert Runcie

 September 15, 2021

Reflection

September  14, 2021

Reflection 

 September   14,  2021

Thought for the Day

“If is an interesting fact that all of us have in our veins the same exact percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.   We are tied to the ocean.  And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back whence we came.”

 

John F. Kennedy,

Newport R.I. Speech,

September 14, 1962

September 13, 2021

 

PERHAPS

  
It’s smart to throw in a “perhaps” –
when trying to figure out just what
was going on when it happened.
 
Perhaps it was the last thing anyone
thought might happen or the last thing
anyone knew was really going on.
 
Perhaps if someone asked for a little
more time – or someone asked a
different question – then maybe – different.
 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

September  13,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“There is but one thing more dangerous than sin – the murder of a man’s sense of sin.”

 

Pope John Paul II,

Quoted in the Observer,

April 8, 1979

September 12, 2021

 

SNEAK  OF  LIGHT

 
Insight sometimes seems
to come like a turning on of
a light at 2:45 in the morning –
suddenly – snap – switch –
but on looking back, it might
be  the result of a hurt -
or personal stupidity or
laziness – too many things
not working – and something
new is needed and then the
sneak of light – then INSIGHT.

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

September   12,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Sin cannot be undone, only forgiven.”

 

Igor Stravinsky, 

Conversations With

Stravinsky, 1959