February 10,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

 F. Scott Fitzgerald

Painting by George Bellows
Dempsey and Firpo
1923-24
Firpo knocked Dempsey 
out of the ring
but Dempsey won 

the fight that lasted 4 minutes.

February  9,  2021 

VIEWPOINTS

 
Do we all see life
from different viewpoints?
 
Do we ever talk to each other
about what and how we see?
 
How would a grandmother in a rocker
see her  grandchild with a big dark dog?
 
How does a person in a wheelchair
see the world as she rolls by?
 
How does the kid who couldn’t make the
team feel at a Friday night football game?
 
What does a dad feel when he buys his son
and all his friends ice cream on the way home
from the game?
 
What does a mother-in-law feel when she
sees her son cheating on her daughter-in-law?
 
What do their kids feel when they find out their
mom and dad – now in their seventies – go  out
for a walk every evening holding hands.
 
Do we all see life
from different viewpoints?
 
Do we ever talk to each other
about how we see and how we feel?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

February  9,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The world only exists in your eyes.  You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

February 8,  2021

BROKEN  PRAYERS

BROKEN PEOPLE

BROKEN  GOD

 
 
Who in the world came up with
the comment that we can’t have
distractions when we pray?
 
Then they add the whammy:
"It’s a sin."  As priest I have heard
that too many, many times.
 
We talk to each other on broken
and shaky chairs at times. We get
phone calls during supper.

David, a thief of another man's wife

sang his broken Hallelujahs, and sang

his lonely Hallelujahs to the Lord of Song.
 
We’re not God. We get distractions
and 5 cents says that God gets
interrupted over and over again.
 
So “Hallelujah” - God here I am
as I am -  “Hallelujah!” And thank
You for being You, every time.

And "Hallelujah" for your broken

prayers from your broken body

on a bloody, broken cross. "Hallelujah!"

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

February  8,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 February 7,  2021

NEED A THEME 
TO THINK ABOUT?

 

Youth and aging jump off the page.
You can hear it in many a song as well.
It sells clothes and hopes and fantasies.
It sells shoes and styles and dreams.
 
The young want to look older.
The older hope they look young.
The young talk about weekends.
The old talk about health.
 
Clocks tick. Calendars turn.
Too many tomorrows and yesterdays
have come and gone and it’s smart
to make today to  make sense.
 
The young get stuck in the future;
the old get suck in the past; and
surprise, Shakespeare’s sonnets and
Willie Nelson finally make a lot of sense.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

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