June 29, 2019

 YAWN 

A  yawn, 

a universal, all languages, message, 

like a crossing guard’s hand signal 

to stop everything 

and let another’s being to catch up 

with itself and then get back to where 

it was and where it was going. 

Oh, “Hi!” and “Hello!” 

“Now what were you trying to say?” 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June  29, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“I hope,  when I stop,  people will think that I mattered.”  

Martina Navratilova, 

International Herald Tribune, 

July 22, 1986.

WALKING  INTO

Walking into ….

Yes I do a lot of that in a lifetime. 

Front doors, side doors, glass,

opened, closed, hesitant … doors …. 

I look around: I see faces. Who’s there? 

What’s there?  Now what? I pause. 

Life …. I’ve been in a lot of places,

a lot of spaces, a lot of lives …. 

Now what? How many more doors do I enter

before I'll then end up being carried out? 

Ok, there is always the background music - while I trust  in God there is no, “That’s it!” 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June  28, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.”  

Bertrand Russell, 

Quoted by Alan Wood, 

Bertrand Russell,  

Simon and Schuster, 1958

June 27, 2019

PERPETUAL  HELP

Now that’s quite a job description

for anyone to post: “Perpetual Help!”

To be there when one is a baby:

obviously. Every mother does that.

To be there when a couple runs

out of wine at their wedding: wonderful.

To be there when one has to carry their

cross to death on the hill called “Calvary”.

And to be doing that ever since for the

helpless, the hurting the shoeless. Amen.

 © Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

June 27, 

Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

June  27, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“Prayer for many is like a foreign land.  When we go there, we go as tourists.  Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place.  Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.”  

Robert McAfee Brown, 

Introduction to John B. Coburn, 

Prayer and Personal Religion, 

Westminster, 1967

June 26, 2019

PRAYER

It can be formal with chiseled words - 

from a heavy ritual book with ribbons - 

but most prayers are screams from 

people all around the planet seeing 

a fabulous sunset or waterfall and

feeling “Wow!” or blurting out, 
"Oh my God!" or it could be a sudden

shrieked yell for “Help!”  in a car as

it’s crashing and smashing into the

car in front of it on Route 95 - or

just a  grandparent’s prayer for their

daughter’s kid heading off to college.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019