April 10, 2019
BEFORE AND AFTER
There’s a before, before us -
if we take the time to think about it.
We have parents. They had parents. They had parents.
And back and back and back and back and back.
There’s a before, before us -
if we take the time to think about it afterwards.
We’re the after, but we’re also the before of a
lot more that is to come.
A rose is from a rose is from a rose is from a rose is from
a rose and
back and back to the beginning of roses and oak trees and
bonsai trees.
So too butterflies, spiders, monkeys, hippos, Rottweilers,
singers, teachers, carpenters, lawyers, nurses, speakers of the house and
cleaners of the bathroom.
There’s a before, before us
if we take the time to think about it.
So if - who we are, what we say, and what we do lasts, - back
and back - till way, way back - why not
do the best we can do - in the here and now - right now.
We pray, we play, we work, we think, we talk, with words and structures
that go back, and back, and back, and back - till before
we remember back.
So I guess the message is: we’re all connected and a lot is
going
to follow us, so best case scenario: let’s leave a great
legacy. Amen.
Parvis Prayer
St. Mary's High School
April 10, 2019
36 Scholars were inducted
into the Rose Parvis
Scholarship Program
at St. Mary's High School,
Annapolis, Maryland
- Prayer Reflection
written for this occasion.
Father Andy Costello
