December 31, 2020

 

THE   END

  

Sometimes those two words,
“The End” are welcomed, like
today, the end of 2020!
 
Sometimes those two words,
“The End” are an “It all depends!”
as in a life or a marriage.
 
Sometimes those two words,
“The End” are an “Oh no!”
like the end of a great get together.
 
Sometimes those two words,
“The End” will be no more,
as in Eternal life within God.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

December  31, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall”

Larry Wilde

 

 December 30, 2020

 

COINS 

Coins, pennies, nickels
dimes, quarters, half dollars,
rest easy in dishes and jars
on bureau tops and desk drawers,
and outside in the earth around
the world are coins worth millions
and millions of dollars from way
way back – unused, unknown,
unaccounted for – and deep
within all of us is love much
more valuable unused, unknown,
and unaccounted for.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

December  30, 2020

 

Thought for Today

 

“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”

Frederick Buechner, 

The Magnficent Defeat

December  29,  2020

HOW  TO  WIN 

AN  ARGUMENT EVERY  TIME

 
Arguing with another is stupid
most of the time.  The other has
their mind up – and so do I.
 
As they say, “It’s a waste of time
and energy to argue in the first place.”
Remember Nelson Mandela. Be smart.
 
So if you want to win an argument
every time simply say, “You're smart.
I'm smart. You got a brain. Me too."

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

December  29, 2020

Thought for Today

 

“Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.”

 

Robert Lynd

December  28,  2020

SOUNDS LIKE 

The  dog barks,
the train whistles,
the radiator rattles,
the December cold
combines with everything metal,
and you’re just sitting there,
snoring. You haven’t said
a thing new since November.
Where are you as we come
to the end of this worst of years?

                                                                         © Andy Costello, Reflections 2020