Thought for Today
“Do not be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own children.”
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
April 14, 2020
PRIEST
Lights on the
other shore ….
Like in The Great Gatsby
people eventually
wonder what’s going on
over there ….
They get beyond thinning hair -
clothes – cars – champagne –
to deeper stuff.
Somehow I got
the job to tell them
what’s over there.
What do I know?
“God help me!”
“God help me!”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 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
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