STORY  TELLING 

EAMON  KELLY

June 23, 2018

TELL  ME  A  STORY

Stories trigger stories.

Memories match memories.

Conversations - story telling,

like sparks from a fire jump up

out of your minds and our mouths -

when we take the time to listen

to each other.  Unfortunately,

iPhones and television and

movies have done damage to 

the most basic educational system

we humans have come up with:

telling stories to each other.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

June 23, 2018

Thought for today: 

“Arguing with a fool  shows  there are two.” 

Anonymous

ORDER

It could actually be one’s deepest desire.

It’s this wanting what I deeply want.

It’s this wanting when I want it.

It's to be in control.

If you ask, I might actually say what I want.

At restaurants, at work, in the family ….

Who gives the orders around here? Make it me!

My will be done, on earth and in heaven…..

Oh, now I know why Christ got nailed to the cross.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

June 22, 2018

Thought for today: 

“An egotist is  a  person who is ME-DEEP in conversation.”  

Anonymous

June 21,  2018

PROMISES  TO  KEEP

…. for better, for worse,

…. for richer, for poorer,

…. in sickness and in health,

…. in good times and in bad,

…. till death do we part ….

He never thought of the meaning

of these simple words till that moment,

as he was torn between past

and future, between his wife

becoming his wife that moment

and his parents twenty feet away,

and so he turned to them and said

with his eyes, “Thank you!”

and then without thinking kissed

and embraced his wife - and the

whole church clapped and his

wife hadn’t even made her vows

and promises to him yet - so now

it’s their turn to be repeat performances

of what their parents did for them before them.

Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

June 21, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“Egotism is the art of seeing things in yourself that others cannot see.”

 Anonymous