September 8,  2018

HIDDEN  CHAPELS

There are countless chapels -

not known as chapels or churches -

anonymous holy places - here and

there and everywhere - all over our world.

I have walked into them - by accident

or happenstance - only to be surprised

by God within. Most of the time I have

been alone - but not always - and

there is God waiting for me, “Hello!”

The older I get, the more I see these

countless chapels of radiance:

a baby’s hand, a marriage bed,

ice cream cones - in every hand of a

laughing family on a hot summer evening.

Then there was this old lady - saying

her rosary in a wheelchair just inside

the front door in a nursing home - and

there I am a month later kneeling at her

body in her casket in a funeral home

saying one “Hail Mary” on that same rosary.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018