Thought for Today
“With money in your pocket, you are wise, and
you are handsome, and you sing well too.”
Jewish Proverb
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Monday, April 13, 2020
April 13, 2020
RHODE ISLAND RAIN
Not that far from a river
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 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
Saturday, April 11, 2020
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
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