November 22, 2018

IGNORED

Have you ever started to tell a story

and someone cut you off and began

telling their story - and you sat there

feeling frustrated and sort of alone?

Well, now you know what it feels like

to be a parent or a preacher or a kid,

of for what it’s worth: now you know

what it feels like to be God - most days.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

November 22, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“A  religious  person is one who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.” 

Abraham Joshua Heschel     

November 21,  2018

PING PONG GAME

God loves ping pong.

You know that, right?

Everything is moving,

even when it seems, it’s not.

Blood is flowing through

our inner subways.

Stars and the sun and moon

are this gigantic amusement park.

Foxes and groundhogs go hunting

every night in the dark.

God has his ping pong paddle

and asks, “Are you ready to serve?”

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

November 21, 2018

Thought for today:

“don’t pray  when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”

Leroy Satchel Paige

November 20, 2018

THE  ROSETTA  STONE

It took a guy named Jean-Francois

Champollion 14 years as well as

others to figure out the Rosetta Stone.

Sometimes it’s easier to sit down

with grandkids and have them explain

what their handwritten messages to us mean.

Well, thank you, now hand me your

crayons - get me a piece of paper -

and let me write a message to you?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018

November 20, 2018 

Thought for today: 

“An atheist is someone who has no invisible means of support.”  

Fulton J. Sheen

November 19, 2018

SHEPHERD’S  AND  APPLE PIE 

Apples, peaches, potatoes, chunks of beef,

just waiting: waiting, waiting, wondering  -

seeing the sharp silver  knife on the counter -

about to be picked up and then the chop,

chop, chop / cut, cut, cut / slice, slice, slice.

Life: growing, grazing, hanging there, till

purpose has arrived: becoming the shepherd's

or apple pie - becoming the  dinner or the dessert, existing for others. Wondering: do we know this is their purpose too?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018