January 13, 2020

ELITE

Is there a secret desire 

in all of us to be elite? 

Not in everything – but in something – 

or in at least one thing. 

I know how to dress just right 

and you have no clue. 

I know wines and after dinner 

drinks – and you know nothing. 

I’m good in cards or ping pong or 

Shanghai rummy – and you’re not. 

“Thank God I’m not like the rest – 

greedy – grasping – so, so selfish ….”* 

Do we have these desires because 

we actually feel inferior to so and so? 

Is the secret to be able to laugh at 

ourselves especially when our egg cracks? 

Is the secret what Jesus said, “Whoever 

humbles him or herself will be exalted? 

Why is it that we want to be seen 

As Number 1 – at table or at church? 

© Andy Costello, Reflections

*Check Luke 18: 8-14

January  13,  2020

“Heresy  is the  lifeblood  of  religion. It is faith that begets heresies.  There are no heresies in a dead religion.”

Andre Suares, Pegny, 1912

January 12, 2020

LAYERED  LOOK

Look! Look at your life.

Look carefully. Look!

There are layers upon layers.

There are events upon events –

comments upon comments –

hurts that trigger hurts,

passive aggression on top

of past hurts – payback

on top of payback.

Look at your life.

See the sorrows under

joys and the joys under sorrows.

Let go!  Stop the cycles

of hurt upon hurt. Look!

Listen. Learn. Unravel.

STOP signs sometimes work.

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January  12,  2020

Thought  for  Today:

“Hurt  people  hurt  people.”  

Rabbi Yehuda Berg, 

and Pastors Rick Warren 

and Will Bowen

January 11, 2020

UNDONE

Oh my God, 

there are so many things 

we’d like undone: 

comments, choices, moves, 

gestures, texts and twitters. 

Oh my God, 

did You really regret 

creating us or did the 

author of Genesis 6:6 

regret writing that? 

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January  11, 2020

Thought  for  Today  

“Autobiographies  ought  to begin with Chapter Two.” 

Ellery  Sedgwick, 

The Happy Profession 

January 10, 2020

TUG-OF-WAR

Tug-of-war can be a tough game.

Tug-of-peace hopefully is also a

game that is going on as well.

The rope used for tug-of-war

games is usually very thick.

Time, control, money, ego,

are all in the weave of rope.

Life is the pull of all these

forces. Hopefully, we learn

the game called tug-of-peace.

                                                                                 © Andy Costello, Reflections