January 20, 2018

COMEDY  OR  TRAGEDY? 

My life …. My play…. What’s it called?

Comedy or tragedy or what?

Where’s it playing?

Directed by? Supporting cast?

Is it any good?

Reviews? 

“An absorbing story....”

“Can’t miss ....”

“You’ll love it ....”

“Better than ....”

“Great second act ....”

“An experience you’ll never forget....”

My life is a play,

a mystery,

a psychological drama,

a powerful story,

full of plots and subplots,

full of interesting characters, 

at times a cascade of blurs,

at other times, a rainbow of glory,

but it’s a long time before “The End.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

January 19, 2018

Thought for today: 

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.” 

Michelangelo [14755-1564]

January 19, 2018

January 19, 2018

5   SPIRITUAL   RULES

Spiritual Rule  #1:  When giving spiritual advice,

it ought to be - more or less - simple.

Spiritual Rule #2: Less words - less stuff -

less noise - less self - less eating ….

Spiritual Rule # 3:  Put others first. Put self last.

Spiritual Rule # 4:  See others as others

and not as I see and I am.

Spiritual Rule # 5: God the Second Person of God emptied God of being God and became Christ. Try it … not easy….

Spiritual Rule # 6: There’s more, but that’s

enough with the rules for now.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

January 18, 2018 

Thought for today:

“I don’t know whether I like it [the 4^th symphony], but it’s what I meant.”  

Ralph Vaughan Williams [1872-1958] in Christopher Headington Bodley Head History of Western Music (1974), page 293.

January 18,  2018

CHURCH  BELLS 

They didn’t know it when they bought

their house - that church bells came

with it - on the street behind their street.

Bong ….  Bong …. Bong …. Bong ….

They heard them every morning at 6.

They heard them some evenings at 6.

They rarely heard them at 12 noon.

Bong ….  Bong …. Bong …. Bong ….

After 6 months they cursed them.

After 1 year they said, when asked,

“Wow! Did we make a mistake?"

Bong ….  Bong …. Bong …. Bong ….

In the 7^th year, they found themselves saying,

“We found ourselves no longer atheists. We

lucked out: our church is just around the corner.”

Bong ….  Bong …. Bong …. Bong ….

  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

January 17, 2018

Thought for today: 

“A gossip is one who  talks  to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”  

Lisa Kirk, New York Journal American, March 9, 1954

January 17, 2017

Reflections

IN CIRCLES

Some days....
Some conversations ....
Some marriages ....
Some relationships ....
Some sermons ....
Some situations ....
Some prayers ....
Sometimes heaven ....
Sometimes hell ....
Sometimes  God ....
Better: always God ....

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018