October 17, 2019

TRANSUBSTANTIATION

Change - deep, deep inner change -

in all of us Christians day by day -

becoming Christ - being Christ more

and more and more, over and over again -

being true presence - becoming  really

present to those we’re with - being light,

being life, being love - to each other -

feeding the world - visiting the sick and

those imprisoned - clothing the naked -

letting people eat us up - our time and

our bodies in service to each other.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

October  17, 2019

Thought for today:

“The history of scholarship is a history of disagreements.” 

Charles Evans Hughes
 [1862-1948], 

Speech to American Law 
Institute, May 7, 1936

October 16, 2019

QUID  PRO  QUO

Crud!  All I heard for three

weeks now are these three

words, “Quid pro quo!”

Everybody on the news talk shows

used the Latin term, “quid pro quo”,

as if I knew exactly what they meant.

I did and I didn’t,  so I didn’t say

anything. I even used the term without

being sure of what I was saying.

I know it means, "Something for something."

"You scratch my back …. I’ll scratch yours."

"Nobody does nothing for nothing - no how."

Yet, I still don’t know what quid pro quo

means. I really don’t. So I’ll go with the

phrase: "There’s always a catch." Got it.

October  16, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Today  the  ringing of  the  telephone  takes precedence  over  everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.”  

Nieles Diffrient, 

New York Times, 

October 16, 1986

October 15, 2019

10  TOP  MOTIVES 

[Self-test # 26] 

Here are 10 possible motives for doing what we do. Jot them down on 10 small pieces of paper so you can shuffle them. Next study them.  Ask yourself if you have a motive that is not listed and you want it on your  list.  Good. But then eliminate one from this list - so you’ll still have 10.  When you have your 10, put them in order of importance or priority for you. There you go. It’s a self-test. This is Self-Test  # 26  on this blog - which I began back on June 17, 2007.  Game: see if you can find all 26 tests. 

Loyalty

Respect

Look good

Feel good

Health

Safety

Fear

God’s Will

Be loved

Love others

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019
Painting on top by Alex Colville

October  15, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“May you trust God that you are exactly where you were meant to be.” 

St. Teresa of Avila

October 14,  2019

THERE’S  MORE

We all have more.

Our first song is never enough.

We all have more.

We also need to be

the one who asks the other

for their next  song.

We all have a second act,

another song, more time to

tell each other who we are.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019