April 5, 2021

AT  THE EDGE  OF  THE  OCEAN 

I stand here at the edge of the ocean,
so small,  so hesitant, so little, so me,
knowing out there is so much more,
whales, turtles, dolphins, mackerels,
and wave after wave after wave at my feet.
 
Comparisons – are the great teachers
that teach me. I look out and see five big
container ships on the horizon. At night
I see the moon rising out of the ocean.
I see the sun rising out of ocean in the morning.
 
Where do you live?  What is it teaching you?
Besides this ocean edge, I’ve lived in the great
mid-west – seeing wave after wave of corn
and wheat and soybeans learning the value
of farmers and hard work and the need for water.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

April 5,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 
“Blue seas … are the domain of the largest brain
ever created,  With a fifty-million-year-old-smile.”
 

Heathcote Williams

in Whale Nation 1941

 April  4,  2021  - Easter Sunday

EASTER

 
Easter  doesn’t always have to happen
the way it’s always supposed to happen.
 
Surprise! Beggars – the homeless –
might just discover a new way to do life.
 
Alcoholics, gamblers, drug addicts,
might get into a program and recover.
 
A marriage that has crumbled and died
might discover Easter can happen to them.
 
Graves can open up on this side of the grave
and Easter can appear with new Good News.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

April 4,  2021

Thought for the Day

 

“In the spring, at the end of day, you should smell like dirt.”

 

Margaret Atwood

 April 3,  2021

SILENT  SATURDAY 

The quiet after loss ….
The emptiness that death leaves us with -
echoes of loneliness – along with
memories of moments we’ll miss.
Yet it gives us time
to thank, to appreciate,
to put into words and prayer
what another means to us.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

April 3,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

“Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn’t equal the absence of God.”

 

Tullian Tchividjian

April 2, 2021

GOOD  FRIDAY

 
Is the key word, “good”?
 
We know “bad” as in,
“I’m having a bad day.”
 
Bad as in we’re judged and condemned ….
Bad as in we’re hit by spit ….
Bad as in slipping and falling ….
Bad as in we are nailed down ….
Bad as in dying on a cross ….
 
What’s a “good” day?
 
Good as in someone helping us carry our cross ….
Good as in someone nodding support to us on the way ….
Good as in someone helping us when we fall …
Good as in someone hearing our mutterings and moans ….
Good as in someone there when we are dying ….

What’s a good day?
What’s a bad day?
 

Each day is a different day –
but each day we can enter into
the mystery of carrying the giant cross of the world
and experience death and resurrection.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021