November  10,  2020

SAYING WHAT
WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY

 
 
Sometimes when we have something to say,
we say nothing.  We pause. We remain silent.
 
Oh, there are things to say, but we ask ourselves,
“Does this other person really care – really listen?”
 
Is there an age – say 55 or 65 – when another stops
growing and starts growling? They have caved in.
 
When we are young, we take in a lot, without knowing
it or we’re like the 3 monkeys. Closed eyes, ears, mouth….
 
When we are old, we can get lazy and stop
growing and stop wanting to know new things.
 
Thinking takes time and work. Thanking takes
becoming quiet and figuring out where we are.
 
So if you’re wondering why I’m so quiet at times, I
might be outwardly, but I’m talking to myself a lot inwardly.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

November 10, 2020

Thought for Today

 

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”  

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

November 9, 2020

LOOK ALIKES

 
At the next family get together,
even if it’s on zoom because of
the Corona Virus,  look around
for look alikes:  noses, tics,
hand movements, comments.
 
Then there are the invisibles:
values, interests, faith, hope,
and hopefully charities. There
are many more look alikes
than there are look aways.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

November 9, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

"The longer your life, the more you have to remember, and I do have amazing memories. I feel particularly grateful that I’m in a happy marriage. I love my husband. I love being with him. He’s a nightmare, but he’s great, and I look forward to seeing him and miss him when he’s not there. Not that I can’t live without him, because I can. But that is a really nice part of my life, when I look back and think of what we’ve done together. Family in general, I think. It’s not any of my doing really, and the fact that I’m very close to my family is great."

 

Helen Mirren, she told

The Guardian.

  November 8, 2020

 

JEOPARDY

 

Life, if we’re given the gift,
is filled with jeopardy. Make
that double and triple and
many more dangers.
 
Life, the game of life ….
What a blessing – especially
if we’re a grateful – so many
questions – so many categories.
 
Life, coming up with answers,
playing the game with others.
Time, now that’s the major
jeopardy. Enjoy the gift. It ends.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 

 

 

November 8, 2020

 

Thought for Today  

 

"There are beautiful people in the world, and I think we can all recognize them. David Beckham is spectacularly beautiful. Men or women, there is such thing as absolute beauty. The rest of us, 95% of us, are not in that category, but we're in other categories: interesting, funny, smart, brave, inspirational. I mean, there are many, many different categories...," 

Helen Mirren in Glamour magazine.      

 November 7,  2020

INNER   ROOM

 
The door to my inner room –
doesn’t need WD-40. I sneak

in there every day – especially
when things get boring and
conversations aren’t happening.
 
Then one day I discovered
God was doing the same thing.
God  was sitting there waiting for
me – unless I had become boring
and conversations weren’t happening.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

Check Matthew 6:6