June 24, 2019

DOES  EVERYONE 

Does everyone in the audience 

have a song in their body -  a tap 

in their fingers - a dance  in their toes - 

 a tear in their eyes - and a hope in their 

heart that we’re all in this together? 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June  24, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it  is  the illusion of knowledge.” 

Daniel J Boorstein, 

Washington Post, 

January 29, 1984

June 23, 2019

BODY  AND  BLOOD

At his last meal before he died 

he rubbed his hands…. He sensed 

his blood flowing through his being - 

as he said to the world, “This is my body….
This is my blood. I’m giving my all to you.” 

At his last meal before he died 

he looked at his disciples surrounding 

him. He was asking them in prayer 

to say to the world, “This is my body….
This is my blood. I’m giving my all to you.” 

At his last meal before he died 

he closed his eyes and feeling the 

wind and the air that touched all 

the world he said, “This is my body….
This is my blood. I’m giving my all to you.” 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June 23, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don’t know where to begin.” 

Stephen Bayne - on becoming 

first executive of the Anglican Communion, 

Time, January 25. 1960

June 22, 2019

DEAD  BUG

I saw a dead bug

on a window sill.

It bothered me

more than a dead bug

caught in  a spider’s web

or one that hit my windshield.

I wondered, “Why?”

Maybe because

I didn’t know how

or when it died -

but those other two

deaths made more sense.

Is that the way it is

with death? Old age,

cancer, tough but

they make sense.

But to die alone like

a fly on a window sill?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June 22, 2019

Thought for today:

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe  photographs.”  

Ansel Adams

June 21, 2019

AT  EVERY  SABBATH

At every Sunday service,

at every Sunday Mass,

every person present

is either

one of two persons:

the one who sits 

and watches and judges others,

or the one who sits in the back

with and needing God.

Each of us is 

either the Pharisee 

or the Tax Collector?

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

Cf.  Luke 18: 9-14