April  13, 2020

RHODE ISLAND RAIN

It rained and rained,

feeling like it was raining 

non-stop for 3 days  - now ….

At some point  mumbling,

“Too much. Too much.”

“Enough! Enough!”

10 years ago we were

standing in ruin and rot -

with mop and squeegee  ….

Too many memories -

sloshing around our basement…..

holding ruined pictures and trophies …

Cursing prayers - bloop-bloop -

up out of the depths of all this water –

all this rain – all this ruin.

A sacred place - a basement -

in a yellow wooden  building

was gone for good – for bad.

Not that far from a river

in a remembered moment

in Rhode Island – March 2010.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April  13,  2020

Thought for today

“I  believe  in the incomprehensibility of God.” 

Honore  de  Balzac 

[1799-1850]

April  12,  2020

EASTER 2020

Why is this Easter different from

all other Easters? And the priest

and the preacher in all of us needs

to speak up and speak out: “Now

it’s our turn to experience what

our sisters and brothers in that

first Easter went through: fear,

locked doors and a whole big

unknown baptism to be dipped into.

©  Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April  12, 2020 

Thought   for   Today 

“Your  date book is your creed.   What you  believe  in, you have time for.”  

April  11, 2020

BOX

The box is filled – packed,

sealed, taped, addressed,

stamped at the post office.

It’s shipped in a van or truck.

Or it moves by plane – across –

space to space, from place

to place – till it reaches its

destination. It’s opened. Its

contents are checked out.

Then the call that it has arrived.

“Thanks!” Life.  Birth to death.

Nativity to Easter – with the

many quiet Saturdays – with

the many waits in between.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April  11, 2020

Thought  for  Today 

“There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”

Louis Armstrong

April  10,   2020

Thought for Today

“What do we do when the foolishness of the cross actually makes more sense than the wisdom of the sword?”

Shane Claiborne,

The Irresistible Revolution:

Living as an Ordinary Radical