June  4,  2020

Thought  for  Today

“The  only  wisdom we can hope to acquire / Is  the wisdom of humility: humility is endless”. 

T. S.  Eliot, page 35

In T. S. Eliot, A

Symposium for His

Seventieth Birthday,

N.Y, Farrar, Straus

& Company, 1958

Edited by Neville

Brayubrooke

June  3,  2020

SPRAWL

That’s how he sat on the couch ….

That’s how he drove his big 2 door car ….

That’s how his living room looked ….

That’s how he laughed and told a story ….

That’s how he sat in a restaurant  -

an empty chair on each side of him –

the rest of us on the edge and on our side….

You got to say, “He was consistent ….

He was open to what you had to say,

but you felt more like a couch pillow

than a person – your ideas or comments

would  remain like a half-eaten bag of chips ….

I think that’s why most people were past

history when it came to him …. We were

all going, going, gone …. Bye bye …. Bye bye….

©  Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June  3,  2020

Thought  for  Today

“You  carry  heaven  and  hell  with  you.”  

Sri Ramana Mararshi

 

June  2,   2020

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW

Where will I go - when I die?

Into a death card - name and dates -

and a prayer now and then - I hope ….

Into a memory - jumping out of

a conversation - by old friends ….

Into a photograph - on a bookshelf -

and on an iPhone for a while ….

Into acts of kindness - that I tried - 

before I died and you - caught that spirit …

In my jigsaw puzzle - God smiles at  - in its

box - which he still treasures on his window sill ….

And I better add:  sitting  somewhere on the

biggest table – God’s table – in our forever ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June   2,  2020 

Thought  for  Today 

 “If you don’t place your foot on the rope,  you’ll never cross the chasm.” 

Anonymous

PERPETUAL   HELP 

MOTHER   OF   THE   CHURCH

Mary, as I ponder your many titles,

as I wonder about your many names,

I stop for a moment at some of them:

Our Lady of Sorrows and Perpetual Help,

Full of grace and the call to do something

when newlywed couples run out of wine

or folks are hungry for some daily bread.

Mary, Mother of the Church and Mother

of Perpetual Help, remind us, that it be done to us –

what was done to you, that we be there for others

at cribs and crosses or when someone needs

an eye of recognition  in a crowd or when they need

a breath of fresh air – having fallen or been pushed down

once more on dark macadam hard streets of death. Amen. 

©  Andy Costello  Prayers

June   1,   2020


"You  can't ring the bells and,  at the same time,  walk in the procession."

Spanish Proverb