February  7, 2021

Thought for the Day

 

“I hope you make the best of it.  And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view.  I hope you live a life you’re proud of.  If you find you’re not,  I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 February  6,  2021

 

YOU   GOTTA   LAUGH!

 
Sometimes you gotta laugh.
 
Sometimes you have to know
they were not laughing at you.
 
Sometimes you have to give a bit
to give the others a lot of laughing joy.
 
Sometimes you have to discover
that Mary is not the only one full of Grace.
 
Sometimes you’ll know this life is just
the beginnings of the laughter to come.
 
Some time in the future we’ll be in the third day:
pregnancy – birth – then death and resurrection.
 
Then we’ll know that all these little laughs were
preparing us for the Great Laugh: Eternity With God.
 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 February 5,  2021

 

STANDING OVATION

 

 

Have you ever had a standing ovation?

 

Have you ever thought  you did something

that deserved a standing ovation?

 

Have you ever stood up for someone

you thought deserved a standing ovation?

 

Did everyone else stand up as well?

 

How about your mom and dad

at their 25^th or 50^th wedding anniversary?

 

How about your spouse - if you’re married -

walking out of a hospital after a big operation?

 

How about God – as you stood  there

watching a sun rising at the ocean?

 

When were the moments in your life

that you burst out with, “Oh my God!”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

February  5,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.”

 

 

Zelda Fitzgerald

February  4,  2021

 

INNER  CHATTERING  WORDS

 

Do my words,
perhaps puzzles,
take you to places
inside of you that
you have stopped visiting?

Do they make you laugh?
Do they made you cry?
Do they make you wonder
how you ever got to where
you are in the first place?  

Oh - oh – oh - I’m hoping,
I’m wondering if you know
that we love you - but

more importantly - if you
know - you are so loveable?

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

February  4,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“People are like almanacs, Bonnie – you never can find the information you’re looking for,  but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”

 

 Zelda Fitzgerald

 February  3,  2021

 

WHAT  WERE  YOU  NOT  THINKING?

 

 

“Hey God,” an angel came flying to God, and asked: “What were you not thinking when you made humans?”

 

“What are you talking about?” said God.

 

“Well, I’ve been noticing an interesting quirk they have.”

 

“Pray, tell?” said God.

 

“It’s this thing called ‘illusion’.”

 

“What are you talking about?  What do you mean ‘Illusion?’”

 

“They think a piece of fruit – say an apple – that it will last forever.”

 

“Interesting. Tell me more.”

 

“Apples fall. There’s such a thing as gravity!”

 

“Tell me more!”

 

“And they age. They rot. A fruit tree – and a garden – is loaded down with knowledge.”

 

“For example.”

 

“Illusion.  I’m telling you that the place is loaded – life – apples, peaches, pears and plums …. People are filled with illusions – and they have to fall  before they can rise.”

 

“Oh, okay,” said God. "I guess time will tell a lot more."

 

[A moment of quiet….]

 

“Wait a minute,” said God. “Who thinks who is the smarter?  The man or the woman?”

 

And the angel said with a smile, “Oh, that’s an illusion - if there ever was an illusion.”

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

Painting on Top:

Louis Delsarte,

Adam and Eve, 

a scene in his mosaic,

"Transitions".