December 29, 2019

BIBLE  BINGO

When prayer is boring

and prayer is hard,
I like to play Bible Bingo.

Just open the Bible ….

Just  point your finger

to the text on any page.

I’m the Good Thief and the Bad…

I’m David and Goliath….

I’m Martha and I’m Mary ….

I’m in the Garden and I'm in the desert .…

I’m in the valley and I’m on the mountain ….

And I’m on an Exodus and in the in between ….

I’m rising and I’m dying ….

I’m eating and I’m feeding the hungry …

I’m at the Last Supper longing for the big banquet….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

December 29, 2019 

Thought for today:  

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” 

Marilyn Monroe

December 28,  2019

IT’S THE WINK 

THAT ALWAYS  WINS 

Our eyes show us the wonders 

of the world all around us. 

Our eyes show us the words 

and the pictures in the newspapers. 

Our eyes show us the faces 

of those all around us. 

Our eyes show us another’s eyes, 

but it’s the wink that always wins us. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

December 28, 2019 

Thought for today: 

“To forgive is to  set a prisoner free and  discover that the prisoner was you.” 

Lewis Smedes

December 27, 2019

ALL  OF  US  IN  THIS  CHURCH

All of us in this church are beggars:

begging for bread – the best bread possible;

begging for wine – the best wine possible;

begging for water – to wash away our regrets;

begging for words – that will give us insights;

begging for others – that we understand each other;

begging for leaders – who will make us leaders;

begging for beggars – all of us in this room.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

December 27, 2019

 Thought for today: 

“Why compare  yourself with others? No one in the entire  world can do a better job of being you than you.” 

Unknown

December 26, 2019

GALWAY  BAY

I wasn’t as lucky as my parents –

lucky enough to be born on Galway Bay.

My mom said it was poor and rocky –

or as she put it, “Ireland has nothing”.

So she came to Boston and my dad came

to Boston, Portland, Maine, Philadelphia,

New York City, Hell’s Kitchen – finally

marrying my mom  and  settling in

Brooklyn – above the Narrows – the water

way that could lead you back to Ireland.

I was lucky enough to hear about

Galway Bay from Bing Crosby and

Johnny Cash and so many other singers -

and I was lucky enough to finally visit

the green earth and the turf and the stone

houses where they came from – and to

discover Ireland had everything - God

and especially people like my parents –

and my relatives  in that heaven –  

“in that dear land across the Irish sea.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019