July 1, 2923

BLESSINGS OF LIGHT

 

Flashlight light sneaks into every

spot it can get into in the night.

It simply and quietly does that

every chance it gets – showing

everything in its view – wherever

it’s pointed – wherever it looks.

 

Well, that’s the way I hope grace

works for you – that you spot your

blessings – that you see the good

will of your friends towards you –

that you realize God is Light and

I’m hoping you receive this insight.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 

 July 1, 2023

Quote for Today

"If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality,  not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up."

Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

bl 2. ch.   

 June 30, 2023

Reflection

 June 30, 2023

Quote for Today

"If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him,  he has created him in his own image and likeness."

Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

bk. 5, ch. 4

 June 29, 2023

Quote for Today

"Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Concern yourself only with how you appear to God, with the idea that God has of you." 

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1937)

Life of Don Quixote and Sancho (1905)

pt. 1

 June 29, 2023

Reflection

 June 28, 2023

Reflection

 June 28, 2023

Quote for Today

"I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint."

Vincent Van Gogh (1855-1890)

in a letter to his brother, Theo

October 20, 1885

June 27, 2023

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

 

Which is the key word: “Help”,

“Perpetual” or “Our”? All 3 words,

if chewed on,  have nourishment.

Even the word “Our” has grab.

I like “help” the most.  “Help!”

We Redemptorists have been

perpetual in pushing this Ikon.

I’m pushing it here. Give it

some study and prayer till

you too get its message. Amen.

 

© Reflections, Andy Costello

 June 27, 2023

Quote for  Today

"Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people.  Concern yourself only with how you appear to God, with the idea God has of you."

Miguel de Unamuno (185=64-1937)

Vida de Don Quixote y Sancho (1905) pt. 1

 June 26, 2023

Reflections

 June 26,  2023

Quote for Today

"Tempt not a desperate man."

William Shakespeare,

Romeo and Juliet (1595)

Act 5,  s, 3, l. 59

 June 25, 2023

Reflection

 June 25, 2023

Quote for Today

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

George Eliot (1819-1880)

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

bk.6,  ch. 6

 June 24, 2023

Reflection

June 24, 2023

Quote for Today 

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life , it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Middlemarch (1871-2)

Bk. 2, ch. 20