October 22, 2019

HINTS AND INTUITIONS

If we asked someone to empty

out the contents of their souls -

onto the dining room table -

we’d see smigeons of hints

that this someone knows

there is a God lurking in our

loneliness and there are lots

of intuitions of beauty in all

the moments and memories

of the human soul. Many ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

October  22, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life …. Know your own bone: gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw at it still.” 

Thoreau

MY  BLOG

Various people down through the years have sent messages to me about starting a blog - working with a blog - and various other “How To” questions about blogs.

I still don’t know how to process  their questions - mainly because they must think by putting a comment into my blog - I can respond directly back to them.  There is no e-mail address, etc. so I can’t respond - as of now.

We’re getting a new guy here next month who is tech savvy - so I’ll ask him some of the questions people sent to me.

To start a blog - you can do what I did.  A guy named Norm Constantine suggested I start a blog - so I said, “Show me.” He set this one up for me. He showed me how to do blog spots.

I started on June 17, 2009.  This is blog piece #6924.

So to start a blog - a question I’ve been asked - find someone who will set up a blog for you.

This one didn’t cost me a penny. It’s still free.  I know some  people make money etc. with their blog. I don’t.

As time went on I learned how to put pictures and short YouTube videos onto pieces.  The screen menu showed me just how to do different things.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.  Study different blogs and come up with a blog site you would like to imitate.

Go for it.

I hope someone who sends me  their requests for information will find this short document.  I am not dissing them.

Thanks,

Andy Costello

PERCEPTION

Till we realize we both can be looking 

at the same thing - while at the same 

time see differently  - we’re not going 

to be really communicating with each 

other. Solution: “How do you see this?” 

For example: How do you see the following?
A tricycle?  A cane? A kid watching a balloon
that just slipped out of her hand sailing away?
A family - three small kids and a mom and
dad - licking ice cream cones on a warm night.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

October  21, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“God’s pencil has no eraser.”

October 20, 2019

GOING  TO  CONFESSION

I sometimes hear people po po

going to confession. When I hear

this complaint or comment,

I keep quiet. I listen to them.

I think about what they are saying.

They usually say in the mix of

their words that they can go

directly to God. Good. Great.

Go for it. But when they say,

"It’s crazy", it’s  then I might  say,

“I’ve been ordained a priest

and have been hearing people’s

confessions for 55 years now

and I’ve heard the, “PHEW!” sound

enough times to say, “I disagree

with your appraisal.” Then I might

add, “You’re like people who say

there is no God to people who

have tasted God."  "Oh you don't

believe in God, either." Oh.

A suggestion: think outside 

the box before going into it. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

October  20, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject;  the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”  

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics, 1905