August  24,   2020

DUST COMING AND GOING

It was early afternoon - just resting

in a comfy bed – taking a siesta –

the sun sliding through the venetian

blinds – and I was looking at dust

coming and going – dust  floating in

the air  like astronauts – in my bedroom.     

Was I seeing what was part of Jason

down the street or grandma next door –

dust coming or going – dandruff or dried

skin from their right arm or left ankle?

Would some of this dust become

part of the tomato patch next door?

Is this how some guru from the Ganges

came up with the idea of reincarnation

or was it because he lost his friend

from down the street or his grandma

next door – who died  quietly on an

afternoon – on a day just like today.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

Drawing :You're Never Alone
in a Dusty Apartment,
The New York Times

August  24, 2020 

Thought  for  Today 

“I have the true feeling of myself only when  I  am  unbearably  unhappy.”

Franz  Kafka, 

Diaries 1914-1923 

August   23,  2020

MIXING  IT  UP

Mix, O Lord, a mixture of

compassion and mercy

in this bowl called “Me”.

Blend Your best flow –

intermingle – agitate my

soul – again and again.

For good, better, best -

of course, so that those

who come into contact

with me - come away with

better ways of being in Holy

Communion with each other.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

August  23, 2020

Thought  for  Today

“The  boughs  of the oak are roaring inside the acorn  shell.”  

Charles  Tomlinson,  

A  Sense  of  Distance 

August 22, 2020

PATTERNS

When we have step back …. 

When we look long … 

sometimes, we’ll  see patterns.  

But when we’re just seeing 

the moment, when we’re 

just seeing one thread 

working its way into the fabric 

of our  life, it’s  not enough…. 

Yet, when we can’t sleep, 

when we’re on a  plane flight 

or a summer vacation,  or in 

a hurt, the patterns are there. 

Sometimes our life  makes sense. 

But if we don’t pause – we might  

have to wait till old age to discover  

there are patterns in the fabric of our life. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020 

August   22,   2020

Thought  for Today

"Enter this door 

as  if  the floor 

within were gold; 

and every wall 

of jewels all 

of wealth untold; 

As if a choir 

in robes of fire 

were singing here; 

nor shout nor rush 

but hush … 

for God is here.” 

In the vestibule

of  many a church

in England.

August   21,   2020

VE  FOR  VICTORY

Victory for everyone. 

…..  ve, 

the last two letters  

of some very important words:  

give, serve, save, live, love;  

the ending 

of some very important actions:  

to give, 

to serve, 

to save, 

to live, 

to love, 

and then when we do them 

we experience 

victory for everyone.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020