CONSEQUENCES

We don’t like them.

We don’t think of them.

We don’t agree with them.

But them consequences

stay with us like bad breath

after anything with serious garlic.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

September 22, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“I have a creed,  none better and none shorter.  It is told  in two words - the first of the Paternoster. And when I say those words I mean them.” 

Oliver Wendell Holmes [1841-1935]

September 21, 2018

ACHES AND PAINS

We all have them, 

aches and pains, 

in our bones and 

in our bodies. 

Nick names for 

neighbors or co-

workers who drive 

us crazy.

Metaphors for

what goes on in

our mind and heart

when things go wrong.

Aches and pains

bloody shovels

and chisels that

dig into and form us.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

September 21, 2018

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]

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

September 20, 2018

Thought for today: 

“The  best  creed  we can have is charity towards the creeds of others.”  

Josh Billings [1818-1885]

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