May  14,  2021

NON-STOP OCEAN

 

The ocean is non-stop –
constant – sliding into
and onto our beach.
 
Sometimes the waves
are pounding, pushing,
jumping, leaping at us.
 
Sometimes all is calm:
the slow slide of waves –
calming moving in and out.
 
The ocean – does it ever
get a chance to say to God,
“Is this the way you want it?”
 
Or does God say, “Just do it.
Surprise all of us. Whatever,
but make it all interesting.”

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 

May  14,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“Love is the crocodile on the river of desire.”

Bhartrihari (570-651)

May 13,  2021 

WHO  SAID?

  

Who said you can’t make mistakes?

 

Who said you can’t forgive?

 

Who said you can’t say, “I don’t know.”

 

Who said you can’t say, “Let me think about that?”

 

Who said you can’t recover?

 

Who said you can’t begin again?

 

Who said you can’t say, “Who said?”

 

 

                                                                                                      © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 May   12,  2021 

GOOD  THING HE  WASN’T  MURDERED

 
Every time I hear on the news
or see in the newspapers that
someone was murdered, I say,
“No!”  When I see scenes of
the Nazi concentration camps
being opened, I reflect on
Victor Emil Frankel who survived.
 
He taught us the need in life
to search for meaning. He
taught us about the need to
want to continue – to know
there are people waiting for
me – that we have a why and
any how to proclaim it counts.
 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

May  12,  2021

Thought for the Day

  “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”

 William A. Ward

May 11,  2021

EVERY DAY 

Every day every sort of thing happens.
 
That's what good movies are good for.
 
They can reveal so much about pretend and love.
 
Relationships are all about pretend and love.
 
Watch kids watch adults not watching kids.
 
When they do they miss out on so much reveal.
 
But when they do, when they really love
each other, when they avoid pretend, they can see
the love story - the reveal movie - of their lives.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

May  11,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.”

 

 Norman Vincent Peale