March 5, 2023
Reflection
Monday, March 6, 2023
March 5, 2023
Quote for Today
William K. McElvaney, a methodist minster tells a dramatic story in his book Good News Is Bad News is Good Ness. This story grabbed me.
"In recent months I have become increasingly aware that God not only disturbs me as an act of love for my liberation; God's love will also disturb me as others experience their liberation.
A recent event in my life symbolized this for me. I was in a hurry on an extremely cold December day to reach the Kansas City International Airport to meet a friend. As I neared the Paseo bridge, a huge traffic tie up - developed and soon I found myself in bumper - to - bumper - traffic. Time began to slip away and I still had a long way to go to reach the airport in time. I fussed, fumed, and fretted. What on earth was causing the problem, and why did it have to happen to me at this time?
"As my traffic line inched its way onto the bridge itself, seven or eight police cars came into, view along with several cars of local T.V.. stations. An accident? A homicide? There was no sign of a wreck and it remained a mystery as to the cause of the problem. As it turned out, the inconvenience was over soon enough for me to make my friends incoming flight. The incident was forgotten.
"Until I picked up the paper the next morning. The front page headline, pictures, and article, recounted a dramatic episode on the underside of the bridge. Answering a report that a young man was apparently poised to jump to almost certain death in icy waters of the Missouri River below, a policeman had positioned himself below the bridge a few feet from the man. With help from colleagues on the bridge, the policeman harnessed himself in a rope and precariously moved towards the man on a narrow ledge. About the time it appeared to the policemen that he might convince the man not to jump, the man leaped off the bridge.
"At precisely the critical moment the policeman also leaped and caught the man in mid-air, both being supported by the policeman's rope harness from the top side of the bridge. There they dangled and struggled with each other. The policeman told the struggling man, 'I'm going to hold onto you till hell freezes over, and if you go down, I'll go down with you.
Following agonizing moments of uncertain maneuvering, they were both pulled to safety One man risked his life. Another's man's life was saved. [p.39]
Saturday, March 4, 2023
March 4, 2023
LISTENING
TO MYSELF
Do I have a same sounding spin
that everyone in the room has
heard from me over and over again?
Same songs – same sounds – same stories -
same spin – same spin – same spin?
Uh oh – I haven’t heard this ongoing
repetition of the same, same stories –
so I might as well do the listening and
make them love songs
– and no more complaint songs.
© Reflections,
Andy Costello
March 4, 2023
Quote for Today
"Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-asorption, body maintenence and image repair? When we die do we want people to exclaim, 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say, 'She lived a great life?'
Letty Cottin Pogrebin,
Getting Over Getting Older,
Crown
Friday, March 3, 2023
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