August 28, 2019

AUGUSTINE

Augustine - let me tell you something -

there is no way - you have to confess -

there is no way you would have known -

that you’d be the patron saint of us

procrastinators - of lust - of  those

searching for God in the dusty places

of a thirsty mind and heart - okay -

you knew you had a mom like

so many moms - wondering if you’d

ever find rest  in this restless world -

till you found out God is like us:

a restless and ever waiting God ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August  28, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Several years ago, however, when I was moving my dad to Texas, I came across one of those diaries from when I was 12 years old.  One entry indicated that I had gone to hear Dr. Harvey Ironside, the famous pastor of Moody Memorial Church in Chicago. And in my diary I’d  put: ‘Some men preach for an hour and it seems like twenty minutes, and some preach for twenty minutes and it seems like an hour.  I wonder what the difference is?” 

“I think I’ve spent my life trying to answer that question.’”  

Bill Hybels, page 19, 

Leadership Spring 1990, XI, 

Number 2, Pepperish: 

A  Practical Journal ….

August  27, 2019

Thought for today: “The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, ‘What a lovely sermon!’ but ‘I will do something.’”  

St. Francis de Sales

August 27, 2019

SOME  SOUNDS

The sound of bacon “ouching”

on a frying pan at 7:07 in the morning ….

The sound of a baby in a side row

seat 27 minutes into a Sunday Mass ….

The sound of a screen door on the porch,

sort of like sweeping the floor, opening

and closing, bedroom windows open

around 12:39 on an August hot night ….

The sound of a shy “Hi” after a fight -

but hoping to repair the hurt - please God ….

The sound of a flag being folded tightly

by 4 marines at a burial - just before it’s

presented to a widow at the grave ….

The sound of the crowd when a home run

just goes just foul in the ninth inning and

our team loses by just one run ….

The sound of an aluminum can releasing

its spray of air and bubble - freedom - finally ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August 26, 2019

Thought for today:

“A priest sees people at their best; a lawyer at their worst; but a doctor sees them as they really are.” 

Proverb

August 26, 2019

PERFECT  CIRCLE

They reported that Da Vinci

could draw a perfect circle

every time. Nice. Good story.

But few of us can avoid being

distracted in a sacred moment

or cutting someone off in a

good conversation because

we have to tell what the other

triggered in us and then the

other does the same back to

us and neither of us knew

what we doing at the time.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August 25, 2019

Thought for today: 

“Better a thousand enemies  outside the house than one inside.”  

Arabic Proverb