January  2,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

ROCHESTER  EXTEMPORE

 
And after singing Psalm the Twelfth,
He laid his book upon the shelf
And looked much simply like himself;
With eyes turned up, as white as ghost,
He cried, “Ah, Lard! ah, Lard of Hosts!
I am a rascal, that thou knowst!”
 

John Wilmot,

Earl of Rochester

January 1,  2021

HAPPY  NEW  YEAR!

 
“Happy  New  Year!”
 
Whatever mood we’re in,
we wish each other a
“Happy New Year!”
 
For starters, we wish health,
joy, God, and peace flowing
like a river in our relationships.
 
This year, we all want a better year
than last year, for family, country,
world, and no more nonsense. Amen!
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 January  1,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year at this time we'd like each other a little more.”

 

Judy Garland

December 31, 2020

 

THE   END

  

Sometimes those two words,
“The End” are welcomed, like
today, the end of 2020!
 
Sometimes those two words,
“The End” are an “It all depends!”
as in a life or a marriage.
 
Sometimes those two words,
“The End” are an “Oh no!”
like the end of a great get together.
 
Sometimes those two words,
“The End” will be no more,
as in Eternal life within God.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

December  31, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall”

Larry Wilde

 

 December 30, 2020

 

COINS 

Coins, pennies, nickels
dimes, quarters, half dollars,
rest easy in dishes and jars
on bureau tops and desk drawers,
and outside in the earth around
the world are coins worth millions
and millions of dollars from way
way back – unused, unknown,
unaccounted for – and deep
within all of us is love much
more valuable unused, unknown,
and unaccounted for.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

December  30, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”

Frederick Buechner, 

The Magnficent Defeat