April 26, 2020

Thought  for  Today

“Traditional  autobiography  has  generally had a poor press.   The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent.  Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about the writer except his memory.  George Orwell thought that an autobiography can be trusted only ‘when it reveals something disgraceful.’  His reasons?  ‘A man who gives  a good account of himself is probably lying.’  Sam  Goldwyn came to this conclusion: ‘I didn’t think anybody should write his autobiography until after he’s dead.’”  

From Autobiography – 

A Life Decoded by 

J. Craig Venter

April 25, 2020

GOD AS BREAD

Bread broken – God crying -

when people refuse to share

their bread, their lives,  their

talents, their time, their tears,

their concern with their neighbors.

Bread taken – God leaping

out of gold bowls into the

hands of children receiving

their First Communion –

but not this year of the virus.

Bread wanted – God shared

by  old people  - knowing so

many meanings of the old

prayer, “Give us this day our

daily bread and forgive us ….”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April 25, 2020

Thought for Today

“When  this  is  over,  the  world  must gather.”   

Mikhail Gorbachev 

page 53, Time Magazine,

April 27 - May 4, 2020

This issue of Time is
entitled, "Finding Hope"
A Time 100 Special Report
This picture is from an
article by Mikhail Gorbachev

April 24, 2020

2020 

THE  YEAR  THAT  WASN'T 

20 years from now, will this year

have a name: “The Year that Wasn’t”

or, “The Year When Everything Changed”

or, “2020 Hindsight” or “2020: Out of Sight”

or “We Never Knew When It Would End?”

It might be the year we missed out on

Easter, Spring, Mother’s  Day, Father’s

Day, March Madness, the Baseball

Season, Graduations, Weddings, Wakes

and Funerals: the ending of it all.

But down deeper there are wonderings and

there are questions. Will we have a new fix

on faith and family and on ourselves?  Will

folks get back to church or will all be asking,

“God where the heck  were You in 2020?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

April   24,   2020

Thought  for  Today

 “It’s more difficult to read than Dante in the  original -  even if you don’t  know  Italian!”  

Tom Phillips, 

on Dorothy L, Sayer’s 

translation of Dante, 

BBC Radio 3,  

November 1993

Cute comment: but 

to be fair I need to

know Italian, to have

read Dante in Italian

along with Sayer's

translation.  I probably

won't get to doing this,

but it's a cute comment.

I hope Dorothy didn't

read this.

April  23,  2020

I  WAS  IN  PRISON 

AND  YOU  VISITED  ME

Did you ever wonder why Jesus said,

“I was in prison and you visited me”?

Jesus was in jail – just that one night,

and it was only part of a night.

Did he think about John the Baptist

when he was jailed  for speaking out?

Did he tighten his jaw when he walked

by a jail or a  criminal  on a cross?

Did you ever wonder why Jesus said,

“I was in prison and you visited me”?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Here are 2 videos - of 2 singers,
 Johnny Cash and B.B. King visiting prisons.

April  23,  2020

Thought  for  Shakespeare's April 1564 Birthday

"Go to your brow: 
knock there, 
and ask your heart 
what it doth know?"

His baptism 

is recorded:

April 26, 1564