January 15, 2020

GOD  TUGS

God tugs.

God tugs the tassel

of our thoughts –

not just in church,

temple or mosque.

God touches us

when we stop to

watch the deep dark

night sky.

God taps our wallet
when we walk down
the street and see a
beggar's out stretched hand.

God takes our hand 
when we tumble on our way of the cross,
wipes our face with his cloak,
and gets us to our Calvary.

God tantalizes

us when we see

tangerines on the table.

Take, taste and eat.

God  thinks

with us when we are

on the communion line

when  we receive each other.

God tugs.

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January  15, 2020

Thought  for Today 

 
“Hope is a dangerous thing.” 

Colonel MacKenzie 

in the movie 1917 

which we just came 

home from. Phew! 

January  14,  2020

GUINEA  PIG

Sometimes I feel like I’m

your guinea pig – because

I feel like you’re not really talking

to me – you’re having a future conversation -

or you’re looking over my shoulder

at a “Next!”

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January  14, 2020 

Thought  for Today  

“As  soon as you can say what you think and not what  some other person has thought for you,  you are on your way to being a  remarkable man.”   

J. M. Barrie, Tommy 

and Grizel, 1900

  

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