March 26, 2018

THE  GLOBE

I saw a blue globe on a table.

I stopped to give it a spin -

and that it did - spinning

around and around and

around and around again.

And then it stopped - that

is - the globe  on the table.

I was facing the very spot

I was standing on - on this

globe on which I was spinning.

I was the only one in the room -

as I realized there are over 7

billion others going for a spin -

on this globe - along with all the

cemeteries around the globe.

Is there a message for me for 

this moment? Is it: “I’m not alone?”

Is it: “This world will stop,

unless there is The Spinner?”

Or is it: “Awe. The ‘Oh My God?’”

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 26, 2018

Thought for today: 

“If  God  loves  the  ones  we  can’t,” 

she said, 

“then  finally  maybe  we  can.”  

Wendell Berry [1934-  ]

Be Thou My Vision....

Be Thou My Vision in Gaelic

March 25, 2018

FOOTSTEPS

I hear footsteps

from the floor above me ….

I hear footsteps

coming down the corridor

and soon from around the corner ….

I hear footsteps ….

Some I recognize ….

Some I’m wonder, “Whose!”

Some footsteps changed my life.

Some footsteps are no longer heard.

Does anyone wait for my footsteps?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

March 25, 2018

Thought for today Palm Sunday 

“I also had my hour;

One far fierce hour and sweet.

There was a shout about my ears,

And palms before my feet.” 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton 

[1874-1936] The Donkey.

March 25, 2018

THE  DONKEY

BY G. K. CHESTERTON

When fishes flew and forests walked

   And figs grew upon thorn,

Some moment when the moon was blood

   Then surely I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening cry

   And ears like errant wings,

The devil’s walking parody

   On all four-footed things.

The tattered outlaw of the earth,

   Of ancient crooked will;

Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,

   I keep my secret still.

Fools! For I also had my hour;

   One far fierce hour and sweet:

There was a shout about my ears,

   And palms before my feet.

Source: The Collected Poems

 of G. K. Chesterton

 (Dodd Mead & Company, 1927)

SING  YOUR  SONG!


"All you have to do
is to sing the song
you picked out!"