April 15, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“Hell, Madame, is  to  love  no longer.” 

George Bernanos [1888-1948], 

Le Journal d’un Cure de Campagne  

(The Diary of a Country Priest) [1936]

Reflections - April 15, 2018

NOVEL OR A MOVIE?

If you were to pull together your life,

would you make it a movie or a novel?

What would be its title? The place you

came from or the you place you landed?

What have been the raw emotions - 

the pure feelings - the key moments.

What would be the chapters, the time

line? Where would you end your story?

Would you care to guess - to describe -  

20 years from now and how your got there?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018 

ITALIAN SPAGHETTI 

AND IRISH STEW

For a marriage to become a great marriage

a couple has to see where the other comes from.

They have to sit at the family table of each other - Irish with Italian, black with white with brown.

Just one to one is not enough. A couple have to

see each other’s roots, families and differences.

The couple who go it alone has to think family -

food, table, children, parents, grandparents. Mangia!

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

April 14, 2018 

Thought for today:

“Why this is hell, nor am I out of it:

Think’st thou that I who saw 

the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,

In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”

Christopher Marlowe [1564-1593], 

The  Tragic Death of Doctor Faustus 

[1604], scene  iii

AT LEAST 10,000 FLOWERS

It’s Spring.

Christ has arisen!

The earth is going, “Ahem!”
like a Haleigh Davidson motorcycle,

with 10,000 different flowers.

The church windows are open

and out come 10,000 "Amens"

and hymns with "Alleluias"

and hopefully folks walk
out of church with risen smiles 
on their faces today  -
smiles that last all week.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

April 13, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“Each  of  us  bears  his  own  hell.” 

Virgil, [70  - 19 B.C.] Aeneid, line 743

I plan to quote some quotes on hell -
because Pope Francis got people
talking about hell lately.

SOMETIMES

Sometimes it’s just right

to have an ice cream cone -

or to just find a quiet corner

and read a smart article in

a magazine - to think about

its contents - to take a walk

around the block - to visit

or call an old aunt or uncle

and let them do all the talking

and keep listening to their

voice and let their joy

come through your ear to

your heart and soul. Amen.

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018