Just Duckie!

Just tell yourself, Duckie, 

you're really quite lucky!

Dr Seuss

So, sometimes you just feel different and you don't know why

and there are days when no matter what you do

you get stuck in the tall grass and cannot get going!

and there are those days when it feels as though no one is listening

but other days

 you know someone cares

 Someone is there to show you the way home

 and you just know you belong!

so all, in all, Duckie,

you really ARE quite lucky

and that's poetiquejustis

                                  For I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.
                                                                  Philippians 4:11

It's A Gift!

It is not good to refuse a gift

Homer

Accept it

The challenges

The tragedies

The joys

The doldrums 

and the high spirits

Accept them all with an open hand

 Because each is a gift

that makes your journey what it is

and makes you who you are

and you are

-  a very special gift-

and that's poetiquejustis

 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well

Romans 12:6

To Know

Knowledge is a fine thing

Moliere

Very true

Knowledge IS a fine thing

the seeds of learning are planted there

and

Wisdom is a finer thing

because that unlocks what is hidden in the knowledge

and

Compassion is even a finer thing

and

wisdom with compassion is the finest thing of all
because that is where
the mind and the heart
have become a soul
 

and that's poetiquejustis

"Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” 

Zechariah 7:10

Learning

Learning never exhausts the mind

Leonardo da Vinci

Like a stream forging its way through a new path

Like a ray of sun breaking through a cloud

Like a blossom through the late spring snow

 New thoughts

New challenges

New Life

Thomas Huxley said:

Try to learn something about everything

and everything about something

and that's poetiquejustis

Let the wise listen and add to their learning,

 and let the discerning get guidance--

Proverbs 1:5 

The other side of the story

Hear the other side

St Augustine

                                                    Not just the other side of the story

Listen to

the other side of your story

the other side of your soul's story

 that longs for more than this

Hear the other side

And listen

until your story speaks

and then keep listening

And that's poetiquejustis

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. 

Romans 10:17

Where I Have To Go

I learn by going where I have to go

Theodore Roethke

Liz Lemon's famous line:
"I want to go to there"

yea...Well...

I do not always want to go to "there"

Not all "theres" are created equal, you know.

Down painful roads

Joyous paths

In to the future

Out of the past

and yet I go

and 

I learn

by going where I have to go

and that's poetiquejustis

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 

Psalm 119:105

Trying!

But above all else-

try something

When our son was 13

he tried escargot

He probably never ate them again

but he tried

I respected him for that

I don't know what made him decide to try them

he just did

What do you see yourself trying?

Dance?

Marathon?

Singer?

Go ahead and try!

It can't be any worse than eating snails

and that's poetiquejustis! 

Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:19