February 17, 2021

ASH  WEDNESDAY  EXERCISE

Take your finger and rub it on a
window ledge or venetian blinds.

If  you're ultra neat look for some dust

in a unchecked, unvisited, tiny corner. 

Look at your finger and see the dust
and say, “This might be part of me.”
 
Shed skin, flaked me, just a tiny bit
of little old me – rubbed off me. “Me?”
 
Yes, remember you are dust and
into dust you shall return.  “Woooo!”
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

 

February  17,  2021

 

Thought for the Day 

 "What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story." 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 February   16,  2021

WILL  I  BE  ABLE?

 

Will I be able to accept death when it comes?

 

I get that thought – that question – when another dies?

 

I wonder about people when they get cancer

and hear a death sentence.

 

This wondering has to be dealt with alone – but I’m sure it helps when there are others around the bed.

 

I think of this when I’ve see YouTube firing squad scenes.

 

If there is nothing after death,  then I’ll never know – 

but I have to ask if that answer is chosen because 

it’s so difficult to accept a next step?

 

I wonder about the other side. Will I wake up in a dark corridor?

 

Will there be those who have gone before me waiting for me?

 

Will I be able to accept death when it comes?

Do I really believe in Christ as the beyond beyond this?

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

February  16,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

"There is no substitute for will.  Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."

 F. Scott Fitzgerald

 February  15,  2021

 

LOOKING FOR
A CONVERSATION STARTER?

  

Tell me ten days you remember?
 
September 11,  2001.

The day JFK was shot and killed. [Nov. 22, 1963]
The day the Beatles landed in New York [Feb 7, 1964].
The day we met the one we married.
Seeing our first grandkid.

The day we walked our daughter down the aisle.
The day mom or dad died.
The big snow storm of 1947 [December 26-27, 1947]
The day they picked our poem.
The hit we hit that won the game.
January 6^th, the day they invaded the Capital.
 
Tell me ten days you remember?
 
Oops that’s 11.  Well, there are a lot more.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

February  15,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

February 14, 2021

INCOMPLETE PRAYERS

 

God, my prayers
are incomplete. But
I know there is tomorrow.
And then again
there will be Lent –

a time to repent -
and there will be next Easter Sunday
morning  - when I’ll  think of YOU -

as I see the lilies trumpeting a new beginning

after that horrible Friday.

And then there will be more -

a lot more. I know that. Thank YOU.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021