Wednesday, January 22, 2020

January 22, 2020

 “Greater love has no one than this, that one  lay  down their life for their friends.”  


John  15:3-23

Tuesday, January 21, 2020


January  21,  2020


INSTILL

One has to become quiet –
quite quiet - quite  still ….

One has to go off to the side -
step back – sit sideways –

before one can get to essences –
before one can see still points

in their soul. It’s then – when -
they have clarity, that they

can have the calm grace
called “stillness”  – "peace".

It’s then – right then - they might
realize instillness has happened.


© Andy Costello, Reflections


January  21,  2020



Thought   for  Today

 “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

Thales
Thales of Mileto
(c. 626-545 BC)
(1906) Velos Salgado

Monday, January 20, 2020

January 20, 2020




BLACK   BALLOON

Finally, someone bought me.
I had been on the bottom of
a pile of red, blue, and yellow
baloons - unblown up – empty -
airless for four weeks now and 
nobody seemed to want a black balloon -
just red, yellow and blue. Finally, I’m
out of the store – this kid screaming
“Daddy, hurry,  HURRY, blow up
my balloon” He did and on went
the string that the store keeper
gave my dad – and the kid hung onto
that string – and I loved it, LOVED
it  – me floating up into the wind
hi and mighty – in the wind - in
the sunshine – in the scream
of a  kid – with a black  balloon –
me – high above the crowd -
that is - till he saw the ice cream
sign – and then- it was THEN –
he accidently let my string go
and I was flying, high, HIGH,
above the park, above the crowd
chanting the words of the King,
“Free at last, thank God, I’m free at last.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections


January 20, 2020



Thought for Today

“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday, January 19, 2020

January 19, 2020




UNDERNEATH

It takes effort and energy,
“elbow grease” as the cliché goes
to get to what’s underneath
whatever that ugly dark stuff is
that sticks to pots and pans.

Sometimes we have to dig,
scrub, sandpaper it,
to get to the truth
of what you’re really
saying or not saying here.

In other words,
“Are you saying
what you’re saying
or are you saying
something else?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections


January  19, 2020




Thought  for  Today

 “Not the power to remember, but its very  opposite, the  power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.”  

Sholem Asch,  
The Nazarene, 1939