October 28, 2020

 

Thought for Today

“ … out of the quarrel  with ourselves we make poetry.”

 

W.B.  Yeats

October  27,   2020

 

REJECTED

 Most are rejected.

 
We  drive away from the car dealer
with just one car  - all the rest watch
with envy – and hope – as the next
customer comes in the door.
 
Most are rejected.
 
We take one donut and one cup of
coffee as we walk through the train
station – heading for work and some
donuts sit there all day.
 
Most are selected.
 
We talk to one person about
last night’s game. There are other
people in the room who have
lots of other interests.
 
Most or our ideas are rejected.

 

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 

October 27, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Religion: A process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year.”

 

Austin O’Malley

 October  26,  2020

COMPARISON

 

Comparison is a tricky gift.

Be careful with it – because

it’s been used by Pharisees

and Publicans in both temple

and market place. And Jesus ….

 

Jesus used comparisons.

 

Warning: there is something

in us that causes us to compare

ourselves to others – as a way

to avoid being the wheat field

and vineyard we are called to be.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 October 26, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 “Sixty years ago I knew everything;  now I know nothing;  education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

 

Will Durant

October 25, 2020

 

REMAINS

 

The tiniest crumb on the table ….
You were here ….

 
Some warmth in the chair ….
You just left ….
 
A scar on my memory ….
You said something that really hurt ….
 
A call on the answering machine ….
You tried to reach me ….
 
A postcard on the refrigerator door ….
You were thinking of me in Barcelona ….
 
The light on the side of the house was lit ….
You left a signal in the night for my return ….
 
Your ashes remain in a mahogany box ….
You died 8 months ago today ….

 

 

© Andy Costello,  Reflections 2020

 October 25, 2020

 

Thought for Today

“Reformer: Someone who rides through a sewer in a glass bottomed boat.”  

James J. Walker