December 5, 2021

 

HURT

We can all sing that song ….
We can all feel those cuts ….

 
Hurt – hurting ourselves
or hurting others.  Oooooh!
 
When we discover what we thought
was gold ended up being simply dirt.
 
Hurt – a crown of thorns –
a nailing to a cross.  Oooooh!
 
We can’t go through life
without the hammer called “hurt”!

 

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

December   6,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“I don’t ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning.  There they are, and they are beautiful.”

 

Pete  Hamill

in Esquire

December   5,  2021

 

Thought for the Day

 

“An invasion of armies can be resisted,  but not an idea whose time has come.”

Victor Hess

December 4, 2021 

THE OCEAN 

The ocean was simply being ocean.
Wave after wave after wave after wave
kept moving steadily and regularly toward
the shore.  I did what everyone does:
I walked down to the edge of the water.
I stood there and looked and listened.
Without words – without thought –
I connected with everyone who has
done this same Holy Communion since
the beginning of time and eternity. Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021

 December 3. 2021

With God on our side

Song

December   4,  2021

 

 Thought for the Day

 

“The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.”

William Davis

December 2, 2021

 

 

THERE  IN  A TOY BOX

 
There is a toy box
with wooden blocks
of letters – dozens
and dozens of them.
 
At first, I put together
a few words: house,
tree, meow, help,
God, whisper, hello.
 
Should I go on?
Perhaps a poem
will appear or a
story or an adventure.
 
Who knows what’s
just sitting there 
resting or sleeping
in the toy box of my mind.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021