May 13, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“My child looked at me  and I looked at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.”  

Anna Quindlen, New York Times, March 13, 1986

May 13, 20128

MOM’S  DAY

Sentimental cards, flowers,

whatever it takes, as long as

it’s saying in its own way,

“Thank you. I see it now -

at least glimpses of how

much you gave of your

body and blood, soul

and divinity for me when

I was back then.” Now,

I’m trying to celebrate

that Mass of love for

those I’m with and on

and on and on and on.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018  

May 12, 2018 

Thought for today:  

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a  woman’s  birthday 

but never remembers her age.”  

Robert Frost

May 12, 2018

TOUCHING  GOD

Who said, “You can’t touch God?”

People touch God when they take an early

morning’s walk to the ocean’s edge to praise God.

People touch God when they bring

their kids for ice cream on a summer’s night.

People touch God when they love

and praise and bless each other.

People touch God when they rub shoulders on
a bus on the way to work or to a tour together.

People touch God when they make babies

and take care of their aging parents.

People touch God in meals as well as in cheese

and crackers and wine and beer and pretzels.

People touch God when they reach out to each

other at Mass and take Jesus into their being.

People touch God when they forgive those who

laugh at them for their Holy Communion with God.

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018  

May 11, 2018

Thought for today: 


“Everyone’s memory is  his  private literature.”  

Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]

May 11, 2018

CHANGE

Expect change.

If you don’t you might

miss it when it comes.

But then again,

expect repeat performances

and déjà vu.

After every major mistake,

expect promises from the culprit,

“I’ll change. I promise you:
there won’t be a next time.”

But then again,

expect repeat performances

and déjà vu.

Expect the other to change
just when you have given up -
on them not to change. 

But then again,

expect repeat performances

and déjà vu.

Expect change.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018  

May 10, 2018

LIE  FREE

He was lie free….

He could only say

what he knew as true.

When asked, “Why?”

“Why can’t you tell a lie?”

He would remain quiet.

He wouldn’t tell.

But about a dozen years

after both his parents died,

he finally told their story.

“I saw him lie to her and

I heard her lie to him -

and I said, “I’ll never do that

to anyone. It hurts too much.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018
Lie In Wait For by Dorina Costras