March  22, 2020

LORD, I WANT TO SEE

To see your strength

in solid rock and crashing waves.

To see your eye

in mothers watching crawling babies.

To see your mystery

in every birth and every death.

To see your surprise

in grand canyons and snaking rivers.

To see your reaching out

in tree roots and leaf veins.

To see your sense of humor

in broccoli and hippopotami

To see your vastness

in night sky and endless oceans

To see your love for life

in chirping birds and people’s “Hi’s”

To see your presence in my heart

As mine continues to heal from last May 22^nd…..

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

March  22,  2020 

Thought for Today 

 “Do good and disappear.”

Motto of an order of nuns

whose work was nursing.

Quoted by Kathryn  Hulme,   

The Nun’s Story, 

Little  Brown, 1956

March  21,  2020

WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON

Cold – so invisible, so too heat ….

Cold -  so felt – so too heat ….

Love – sometimes invisible, so too heat.

Love – sometimes felt – so too heat ….

Indifference, respect, desires, screams ….

Same scenarios – same scenarios ….

Awareness – sometimes, sometimes ….

We know what’s going on within – sometimes.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 March   21,  2020 

Thought  for  Today  

“Hatred  watches  while  friendship  sleeps.” 

French proverb

March   20,   2020

AN  ORANGE

The cut, the slice ….

the peeling of orange skin ….

Great packaging ….

The slight slippage of juice ….

The pulling apart ….

Then the taste ….

An orange ….

If God has a favorite,

is it the orange?

I  don't know,
but I'm sure it wouldn't
be gold or the shark.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

March  20,  2020 

Thought  for  Today 

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes  unhappy  marriages.”

  Friedrich  Nietzsche

March 19, 2020

SKATEBOARD

Rolling down Newman Street ….

It’s a great hill for skateboarding ….

Hopping the curve at the bottom ….

Another kid filming the show

all the way down the hill.

We clapped. He bowed.

I walked away wondering,

“Is this narcissism

or kids just having fun?”

Further thought: “Is this

this kid for the rest of his life?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020