Thought for today:
“It is not a priest’s business to impose his own ideas, but to aid the workings of grace.”
Abbé Huvelin [1839-1910]
Friday, September 21, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
ORIGAMI MUSEUM
It was on a side street ….
It wasn’t in my plans ….
But it started to rain,
so I dropped into
an origami museum ….
It was a gigantic bird cage ….
I was caught - enfolded -
with 1000 birds of every size
and color, in sight, in flight,
cranes, sparrows, birds everywhere ….
I walked around…. I was
hearing Jesus’ words folded
in all the corners of my life:
“Look at the birds of the air -
here, there and everywhere….
Just behold them…. Paper works ....
Don’t unfold them …. Paper works ....
Just see them. Just let them
delight you and then fly
back out into the rain ….
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
EVIL
Is anything evil?
How about arsenic or cancer?
How about gossip or a lie?
How about suicide or murder?
How about a nasty comment?
How about plagiarism?
How about a stab in the back?
How about envy or jealousy?
How about toxic waste in the water?
How about genocide?
How about using or abusing others?
How about not listening?
Is anything evil?
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2018
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
THE OPTICS OF POETRY
The optometrist, the ophthalmologist,
the optician, the optimist and the poet,
put all those letters in front of us -
and we tell them what we see and
what is better than what we saw
just before that. “What do you see?”
The poet shows us so many things
we’re missing: lovers kissing in the
corner; the dead flowers at the
cemetery; the driver who screams
when nobody will let them out
into the flow of traffic - then they
do the same to someone else
trying to get out of their driveway.
“Lord, help me to
see what I’m
not seeing - what
I’m missing.”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018
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