Saturday, August 10, 2019


August 10, 2019

 INTERESTING  MEETING

It was an interesting meeting.
God woke up one morning
and just wanted to know
what  his creations were thinking
and how they were doing. That’s all.

Invited were a grasshopper,
a mountain, a desert, a lake,
a monkey, a star, a sheaf of
wheat, a grape vine, and the
Prodigal Son’s older brother.

Water from the lake spoke first, next came bread and wine - results from the fields,
the monkey was monkeying around - 
and a bit later came the older brother of the Prodigal Son - now ready to talk.

All spoke up - all wanted humans
to take better care of the earth -
and God to explain climate changes
better  - and the Prodigal Son's older
brother said he was just glad to be home.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019


August 10, 2019 



Thought for today: 

“The two most  important  days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”  


Mark Twain

Friday, August 9, 2019


August 9, 2019
OTHERTHINK

We have problems with otherthink.

The other thinks differently from me.

It’s as simple and as complex as that.

At what age does a teenager or anyone
realize the other sees and wants differently?

Is that what dating is all about?

Is that what conversations should be about?

Then there is God.  God thinks differently?

If giraffes or hippos could talk they would
help us to realize this big time.

So too bike riders on busy city streets or an  
18 wheeler driver who needs to pull in here.

So what do think?  Do you think
we have problems with overthink?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019


August 9, 2019 



Thought for today: 


“The  worst disease which can afflict  business executives in their work is not,  as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.”  


Harold S. Geneen, former 
Chairman International Telephone 
and Telegraph in On why 
management sometimes 
accepts underachievement.



Thursday, August 8, 2019

August 8, 2019


A  PAINTING

In the middle of a wall, a painting,
on a wall painted egg shell off white ….
In the middle of the painting, a lone figure
in a wind shaking wheat field,
clouds doing nothing, wheat being cut down
to put daily bread on his table ….
Did he know he was being pictured, painted?
Did he know he’d still be around
long after he died, in this field 150 years later,
this scene of a World  War II tank battle?
I prefer the first picture - the first painting -
sweat not blood - falling on the wheat ....


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

August 8, 2019 





Thought for today: 


“You know a person by the kind of desk he keeps …. If  the  president  of a company has a clean desk … then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.”  



Harold S. Geneen, former 
Chairman International Telephone 
and Telegraph in On why 
management sometimes 
accepts underachievement

Wednesday, August 7, 2019


August 7, 2019


STOP  THE  RAIN 

Sometimes - just to pause and 
feel the rain - just to see the rain - 
just to smell the scent of summer 
rain  - instead of complaining 
about so much rain this year. 
And I spot what I wasn’t seeing: 
wood, drops, circles, cracks, 
spaces, the dark, the light, 
the soft on hard  - rain on wood, 
what was the weather like on 
the cross that day, Lord Jesus? 


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019