February 15, 2022
“Nobody gets to live life backward.
Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”
Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”
Ann Landers
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Monday, February 14, 2022
February 14, 2022
IN A MOMENT
How many times do we say in a lifetime: "I'll be there in a moment." Or, "I'll be with you in just a moment."
How true? So true.
Oh God – we do say that at times.
“In a moment ….”
Everything happens in a moment … in moments … in the
moments of our life.
Moments walking, moments in an elevator, moments in
traffic, moments waiting for someone who said, “I’ll be there in a moment.”
Moments … our life is slipping away …. It’s disintegrating
by moments – time that will never be here again.
The clock is ticking.
Our life is limited.
Our life moves forward towards its end moment by moment.
It’s like the waves washing away a sandcastle on the shore. Each new wave washes away more till there is
no more – no more – no more….
What is now – was once – a not yet - and then it was – and next – it will become a
never more. Amen.
I don’t want to say that “Amen.”
Yet that’s the truth – and that truth sets us free,
At times I want the illusion that I can stop time – stop the
world – stop the moment – and then just be with still photos – non-moving movies.
Yet I know all is moving moment by moment.
I can’t stop time.
I guess I just have to learn how to be in the moment –
and calmly go with it.
Our life moves forward towards its end moment by moment.
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2022
Sunday, February 13, 2022
February 13, 2022
Thought for Today
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
You will not find me in stuppas,
nor in cathedrals: not in masses,
nor kirtans, not in legs winding
around your own neck, nor in
eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly –
You will find me in the tiniest house of time
Kabir says: student tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.”
Kabir (1440-1518)
Translated by Robert Bly
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