July 12, 2021
Thought
for the Day
“The critical period
in matrimony is breakfast-time.”
A.P. Herbert
(1890-1971)
Monday, July 12, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021
July 11, 2021
LISTENING AND WONDERING
Listening is hard work.
It involves watching –
– and wondering.
It involves questions –
lots of questions – some spoken -
trying to untie the knots.
It involves saying,
“I really don’t know
what’s going on here.
It means backtracking and getting
to the back stories and asking,
“How long has this been going on?”
Then there is time – the long
waiting to find out how close
have I come to reality?
It involves watching –
– and wondering.
lots of questions – some spoken -
trying to untie the knots.
“I really don’t know
what’s going on here.
to the back stories and asking,
“How long has this been going on?”
waiting to find out how close
have I come to reality?
© Andy Costello, Reflections
2020
Saturday, July 10, 2021
July 10, 2021
INTENTION
We get angry at times –
usually at someone
usually at someone
not something -
judging another –
thinking we know their intention -
thinking our perception
of another is another –
if we only paused –
if we really knew why another
is another – so, so different
from whom we think they really are.
judging another –
thinking we know their intention -
thinking our perception
of another is another –
if we only paused –
if we really knew why another
is another – so, so different
from whom we think they really are.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
July 10, 2021
Thought for the Day
“In
big cities, beneath the roar of traffic, beneath ‘the rapid pace of change,’ so
many faces pass by unnoticed because they have no ‘right’ to be there, no right
to be part of the city. They are the
foreigners, the children who go without schooling, those deprived of medical
insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly.
These people stand at the edges of our great avenues, in our streets, in
deafening anonymity. They become part of an urban landscape that is more and
more taken for granted, in our eyes, and especially in our hearts.”
Homily, September
25, 2015
Friday, July 9, 2021
July 9, 2021
AMBULANCE SCREAMING
The scream of an ambulance:
“Get out of my way!” as it keeps
rushing down Main Street.
Is someone dying – injured –
or hurt? They had a stroke –
a heart attack – a fall – and
they got to get to the hospital.
Who’s who here? What happened?
Life: we certainly need others.
We were taught to say a “Hail Mary”
when we hear an ambulance
screaming. I do that. But I also say
a prayer of thanks for that rescue
squad – and the hospital staff they
are rushing to – and I quietly wonder,
“What do they do in the middle of
Kansas – when this happens miles
and miles away for everyone?”
“Get out of my way!” as it keeps
rushing down Main Street.
Is someone dying – injured –
or hurt? They had a stroke –
a heart attack – a fall – and
they got to get to the hospital.
Who’s who here? What happened?
Life: we certainly need others.
when we hear an ambulance
screaming. I do that. But I also say
a prayer of thanks for that rescue
squad – and the hospital staff they
are rushing to – and I quietly wonder,
“What do they do in the middle of
Kansas – when this happens miles
and miles away for everyone?”
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
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