BAA!  PRAYER

When you need to pray 

and you feel you don’t 

know how to pray, say 

the “Baa!” prayer. 

Blurt it out - blurt it out. 

"Baa!"  "Baa!"  "Baa!"
God always finds 

the lost sheep! 

And if things are really bad, 

add a “d”.  Pray, “Bad!”   
"Bad!"  "Bad!" By the way, 
God likes bad people! 

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

May    12, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“My  child  looked at me and I looked back  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 Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.”  

Anna Quindlen, 
New York Times, 
March 13, 1986

TOGETHER AT SUPPER

Not every meal is a Last Supper,

but let’s hope every meal has people

breaking bread and words - people

connecting - digesting - chewing - nourishing -

working to understand each other’s comments.

Not every meal is a Last Supper,

but let’s hope every meal has people

in real presence with each other -

and transubstantiation and holy

communion - people becoming Christ together.

Not every meal is a Last Supper,

but let’s hope every Mass, every meal

breaks us of our aloneness and selfishness

and fills us with grace - especially

the grace of otherness - together.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

 May    11, 2019 - 

Thought for today: 

“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my  father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger lesson, flattened out to give other people comfort or instruction or even a laugh. It did some violence to my third dimension; it made it difficult for me to breathe. 'That's not me,' I would think, listening to some fable where a stick figure of myself moved automatically toward a punishing moral. 'That has nothing to do with me at all.' If I had a soul, I thought, it was that resistance, which would never let another human being have the last word on me.” 

Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy: A Memoir.

THE  KEY

I turn the key, 

the door opens .... 

I turn the key,
the car starts …. 

Sometimes 

I wish I had the key 

to understanding 

who you are and 

what makes you tick. 

Knock, knock ….
Who’s there this time? 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

May    10, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Life is a gamble at terrible odds - if it were a bet,  you wouldn’t take it.”  

Tom Stoppard [1937-  ] 

in Rosencrantz and 

Guildenstern Are Dead 

[1967], Act. 3.

FINGERS  TALKING

Sometimes - as the old 

advertisement put it:

we let our fingers do

the walking. Sometimes

our fingers do the talking ….

when others notice us
doing a nervous tapping 
of our fingers on the steering 
wheel - or on the table - 
or on the shoulder of a loved 
one - just before she goes 
through the door for surgery.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019