March 13, 2022

Reflection

March  13,  2022

 

Thought for Today

 

“Mrs. Karl Marx, at the end of a long and bleak life, remarked, ‘How good it would have been if Karl had made some capital instead of writing so much about it.”

 

Will Rogers, quoted Leon Harris,

The Fine Art of Political Wit

 March 12,  2022

Thought for Today

 

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”

 

B.F. Skinner,

quoted R. Evans,

R.F. Skinner,

The Man and His Ideals

 March 12, 2022

Reflection

March  11,  2022 

Thought for Today

 

“Like a piece  of ice on a hot stove; the poem must ride on its own melting.”

 

Robert Frost,

Collected Works,

Preface, 1951

 March 11, 2022

Reflection

 

KNOCK  KNOCK

[This is an attempt to put today’s gospel into a poem.]

 

I walked by God’s door
over and over again –
too, too many times.
 
But I didn’t walk up
the steps to knock
on God’s door.
 
Instead I complained
over and over again –
too, too many times.
 
I complained that God’s
door was always locked –
so that’s why I didn’t knock.
 
Finally, I did. Finally I
walked up the steps. Finally,
I knocked on God’s door.
 
I knocked - knocked. The door
opened and there was God.
I asked. I sought. God answered.
 
I was invited in. I was given
a seat at the longest table I ever saw –
with millions and billions of people,
 
I was handed a loaf of bread.
It wasn’t a rock. It was the most
delicious tasting bread I ever had.
 
I was nourished. I was energized.
I went out that door filled with the desire
that I too could bring bread to God’s world.

 

©  Andy Costello

Thursday 1^st Week of Lent

March 10, 2022

Gospel: Matthew 7: 7-12