July 20, 2019

REMEMBERING  ANNIVERSARIES 

Remember! 

Some people remember their past 

better than others. Like: “33 years 

ago today we were on a lake in 

Maine and a sudden storm came 

up. Remember? And I panicked 

and you stayed totally calm.” 

Remember! 

We’ve had our good times and bad, 

our moon landings and the bridges 

and  thresholds we’ve crossed. 

Thank you for all that you’ve done 

to fill my calendar to become part of 

my photo albums and history books. 

Remember! 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

July  20, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“For silence is not God, not speaking is not God, fasting is not God, nor eating is not God; loneliness is not God, nor company is not God; nor yet any of all the other two such contraries. He is hid between them, and may not be found by any work of your soul, but all only by love of your  heart.”  

The Cloud of Unknowing, 

14^th Century

July 19, 2019

Thought for today: 

“I didn’t know what she was saying when she moved her lips  in a Baptist church or a Catholic cathedral or, less often, in a synagogue, but it was obvious that God could be found anywhere.”  

Lillian Hellman, 

An Unfinished Woman, 1969

July 19, 2019

GOING  BY  CHURCHES

People driving by churches

on the Sabbath sense that

folks inside are praying.

You’ve evolved spiritually when

you realize every forehead you

go by has prayer going on inside.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

July 18, 2019

CATCHING  THE  BOUQUET

She caught the tossed bouquet

at the wedding - just a month ago -

but no knight in shining armor

has appeared to tilt her windmill.

In fact the flowers have faded.

Dead petals landed on her floor.

It was a Saturday moment of fantasy.

Life doesn’t work like that anymore.

Instead ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

July  18, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“When man substituted God for the Great Goddess he at the same time substituted authoritarian for humanistic values.”  

Elizabeth Gould Davis, 

The First Sex, 1971

July  17, 2019  

Thought for today: 

“Religion is not an opiate, for religion does not help people to forget, but to remember.  It does not dull people.  It does not say Take, but Give.”  

Bede Jarrett, 

The Catholic Mother  1956