“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down their life for their friends.”
John 15:3-23
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
January 21, 2020
INSTILL
One has to become quiet –
quite quiet - quite
still ….
One has to go off to the side -
step back – sit sideways –
before one can get to essences –
before one can see still points
in their soul. It’s then – when -
they have clarity, that they
can have the calm grace
called “stillness” – "peace".
It’s then – right then - they might
realize instillness has happened.
© Andy Costello, Reflections
Monday, January 20, 2020
January 20, 2020
BLACK BALLOON
Finally, someone bought me.
I had been on the bottom of
a pile of red, blue, and yellow
baloons - unblown up – empty -
airless for four weeks now and
nobody seemed to want a black balloon -
just red, yellow and blue. Finally, I’m
out of the store – this kid screaming
“Daddy, hurry,
HURRY, blow up
my balloon” He did and on went
the string that the store keeper
gave my dad – and the kid hung onto
that string – and I loved it, LOVED
it – me floating
up into the wind
hi and mighty – in the wind - in
the sunshine – in the scream
of a kid – with a
black balloon –
me – high above the crowd -
that is - till he saw the ice cream
sign – and then- it was THEN –
he accidently let my string go
and I was flying, high, HIGH,
above the park, above the crowd
chanting the words of the King,
“Free at last, thank God, I’m free at last.”
© Andy Costello, Reflections
Sunday, January 19, 2020
January 19, 2020
UNDERNEATH
It takes effort and energy,
“elbow grease” as the cliché goes
to get to what’s underneath
whatever that ugly dark stuff is
that sticks to pots and pans.
Sometimes we have to dig,
scrub, sandpaper it,
to get to the truth
of what you’re really
saying or not saying here.
In other words,
“Are you saying
what you’re saying
or are you saying
something else?”
© Andy Costello, Reflections
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