April  6,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“People who are far from God think they are very near to him, when they begin to take a few steps to approach him.  The most polite and most enlightened people have the same stupidity about this as a peasant who thinks he is really at court, because he has seen the king.”

 

Francois Fenelon

 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