Saturday, April 25, 2020

April 25, 2020





GOD AS BREAD

Bread broken – God crying -
when people refuse to share
their bread, their lives,  their
talents, their time, their tears,
their concern with their neighbors.

Bread taken – God leaping
out of gold bowls into the
hands of children receiving
their First Communion –
but not this year of the virus.

Bread wanted – God shared
by  old people  - knowing so
many meanings of the old
prayer, “Give us this day our
daily bread and forgive us ….”


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020





Thought for Today


“When  this  is  over,  the  world  must gather.”   


Mikhail Gorbachev 
page 53, Time Magazine,
April 27 - May 4, 2020

This issue of Time is
entitled, "Finding Hope"
A Time 100 Special Report
This picture is from an
article by Mikhail Gorbachev


Friday, April 24, 2020

April 24, 2020


2020 
THE  YEAR  THAT  WASN'T 

20 years from now, will this year
have a name: “The Year that Wasn’t”
or, “The Year When Everything Changed”
or, “2020 Hindsight” or “2020: Out of Sight”
or “We Never Knew When It Would End?”

It might be the year we missed out on
Easter, Spring, Mother’s  Day, Father’s
Day, March Madness, the Baseball
Season, Graduations, Weddings, Wakes
and Funerals: the ending of it all.

But down deeper there are wonderings and
there are questions. Will we have a new fix
on faith and family and on ourselves?  Will
folks get back to church or will all be asking,
“God where the heck  were You in 2020?”



© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020




April   24,   2020


Thought  for  Today

 “It’s more difficult to read than Dante in the  original -  even if you don’t  know  Italian!”  


Tom Phillips, 
on Dorothy L, Sayer’s 
translation of Dante, 
BBC Radio 3,  
November 1993

Cute comment: but 
to be fair I need to
know Italian, to have
read Dante in Italian
along with Sayer's
translation.  I probably
won't get to doing this,
but it's a cute comment.
I hope Dorothy didn't
read this.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

April  23,  2020




I  WAS  IN  PRISON 
AND  YOU  VISITED  ME

Did you ever wonder why Jesus said,
“I was in prison and you visited me”?

Jesus was in jail – just that one night,
and it was only part of a night.

Did he think about John the Baptist
when he was jailed  for speaking out?

Did he tighten his jaw when he walked
by a jail or a  criminal  on a cross?

Did you ever wonder why Jesus said,
“I was in prison and you visited me”?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020
Here are 2 videos - of 2 singers,
 Johnny Cash and B.B. King visiting prisons.


April  23,  2020




Thought  for  Shakespeare's April 1564 Birthday


"Go to your brow: 
knock there, 
and ask your heart 
what it doth know?"

His baptism 
is recorded:
April 26, 1564

Wednesday, April 22, 2020


April 22, 2020


EARTH  DAY

It’s a dangerous place out there.
It’s also a beautiful place as well.

Tiger lillies and tiger sharks as
well as lurking 4 legged tigers.

There’s Everest and El Capitan,
earth quakes and land slides…..

There’s soft gentle breezes
And hurricanes and tornados.

There’s coal and oil and diamonds,
gold and uranium and poisons – uh oh!

There’s herbs and medicines and
now this sneaky one: Coronavirus 19.

There’s you and me, with minds to
“Go figure!” and eyes to, “Go see!”



© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020