June  28, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.”  

Bertrand Russell, 

Quoted by Alan Wood, 

Bertrand Russell,  

Simon and Schuster, 1958

June 27, 2019

PERPETUAL  HELP

Now that’s quite a job description

for anyone to post: “Perpetual Help!”

To be there when one is a baby:

obviously. Every mother does that.

To be there when a couple runs

out of wine at their wedding: wonderful.

To be there when one has to carry their

cross to death on the hill called “Calvary”.

And to be doing that ever since for the

helpless, the hurting the shoeless. Amen.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June 27, 

Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

June  27, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Prayer for many is like a foreign land.  When we go there, we go as tourists.  Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place.  Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.”  

Robert McAfee Brown, 

Introduction to John B. Coburn, 

Prayer and Personal Religion, 

Westminster, 1967

June 26, 2019

PRAYER

It can be formal with chiseled words - 

from a heavy ritual book with ribbons - 

but most prayers are screams from 

people all around the planet seeing 

a fabulous sunset or waterfall and

feeling “Wow!” or blurting out, 
"Oh my God!" or it could be a sudden

shrieked yell for “Help!”  in a car as

it’s crashing and smashing into the

car in front of it on Route 95 - or

just a  grandparent’s prayer for their

daughter’s kid heading off to college.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June  26, 2019 

Thought for today:

“It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the  existence  of God as it would be for even  Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.”  

Frederick Buechner, 

Wishful Thinking: 

a Thelogical ABC, 

Harper and Row, 1973

June  25, 2019

A DOZEN YELLOW ROSES

I was sick and surprise,

someone sent  me

a dozen yellow roses.

Now they are sick.

The petals are starting

to crumble and fade.

But I’m getting better

Is this the way life works?

Substitution and comparison?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June  25, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years.” 

Mickey Rooney on his  roles  in movies. 

Quoted in New York Journal American, 

April 15, 1958