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

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.

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

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