January  30, 2020 

Thought  for  Today 

 “If you prepare for old age, old age  comes  sooner.”  

Anonymous

January 29, 2020

PRECISION

A razor blade, steel,

two plus two equals four,

cold milk, cereal and a banana,

a  piano: black and white keys,

white cord, white venetian blinds,

kissing grandma good night,

a two-year-old saying, “I love you.”

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January 29,  2020

Thought for Today

 “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”  

Kahlil  Gibran

January 28, 2020

EXPERIENCING  IT

You have to experience it;

you have to watch it change;

then you can really know it.

To stand by the rails

and watch a ship slide and

glide away from land and shore ….

To pick potatoes or apples,

strawberries or blueberries,

raspberries or grapes ….

To put together – paper

and string and ribs of wood -

and then to go fly a kite ….

To admit it was a mistake,

to fill out the papers,

to get a divorce ….

To take bread, to take wine,

to be ordained to say,

“This is my body. This is my blood.”

To bring a child into our world,

to teach her gentleness, gratitude,

grace, greatness  and geography ….

You have to experience it;

you have to watch it change;

then you can really know it.

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January   28,  2020 

Thought  for  Today 

 “From silly devotions and from sour faced  saints, good Lord, deliver us.” 

Saint Teresa of Avila

January 27, 2020

NEAR  MISS

I shot a gun once, in fact, twice.

I missed both times. The guy who

was showing me how to shoot a rifle

put a bottle – it was green – on a log –

with a hill as a back drop – just in case -

just in case I was  a really bad shot. I was.

All my life I’ve been trying to say things –

but it seems every time I miss. Yet I hope:

I hope I had some near misses – at least

2 things I’ve been trying to say.

© Andy Costello, Reflections

January  27,  2020

Thought  for  Today 

“Incense is prayer

That drives no bargain.

Child, learn from incense

How best to pray.”

Alfred Barrett