June 18, 2020

Thought   for  Today

“Christ  himself came down and took possession of me …. I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God … in  this sudden possession of me by Christ  neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.”

Simone Weil [1909-1943],

Waiting on God

.

June 17, 2020

FISHING

We walk out of our house every morning 

with our fishing rod – hoping to catch a 

“Hello” or “Nice blouse” or "Any fish?” 

Our house, our car, our job, our salary, 

our titles, all hooks, lures for recognition, 

or notice, or A’s on our report card... 

I once thought God wanted the same thing. 

Nope! I don’t know what God wants other 

than we fish for one another with love. 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June  17, 2020

Thought  for  Today

“Hang  on tight to those you love, because we live on a damn slippery planet.”

Sort of like something 

Thomas  Harris  said 

 in  Red  Dragon

June  16,    2020

THEY ARE RIGHT THERE

The shapes that surround us ….

Did you ever notice how interesting they are?

They are ….

Straight,  crooked, bent, broken,

round, twisting, up, down, different ….

They are ….

The round of the sun in the morning ocean

and the fluorescent slices  of the moon at night.

They are ….

A baby face in a blanket, a teenage acne face,

a scared stock market broker, a wrinkled widow ….

They are ….

Coconuts, cashews, strawberries, potatoes,

chocolates, pies, cakes, pizza, loaves of bread ….

They are ….

Words that come at us in the course of a day:

compliments, curses, Hello’s and Goodbye’s ….

They are ….

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

Picture of my grandniece Carolina.

After really looked at this picture

I began to  see my  niece Claire her mother. 

June   16,   2020

Thought   for   Today

“Every man carries the bundle of his sins / Upon his own back.”

John Fletcher
 [1579-1625] 
from, 

Rule and Wife 
and Have a Wife.
This was a late
Jacobean comedy
first performed on stage
in 1624 and first
published in 1640.

June  15,  2020

SAYING  SOMETHING

Sometimes someone says something but

I kept walking – not to dis the talker – but

to walk to where I was in a hurry to get to.

But every time I stopped and went back

and said, “Wait a minute! What did you

just say?” it was well worth the going back.

Sometimes I surprise them and they say,

“What?” – but sometimes they say

something that changes everything.  

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

June  15,  2020

Thought  for  Today

 “The personal pronoun ‘I’ should be the coat  of arms  of some people.”

Someone