Obscured

There are two types of light. The glow that illuminates

and the glare that obscures.  James Thurber

Let light shine from your heart

And you give the world a place to warm their souls

Let light shine from your eyes

And the path ahead becomes clear

But if what shines forth is a torch

meant to blind others 

then how can  the bearer of that torch

ever see truth

or spread peace?

That is the question

and that's poetiquejustis 

The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it

James 1:5

Suits Me Just Fine

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. 

 C S Lewis

Things to do:

 

Things to be

 

Things to know

 

Things things things

 

 

 

Time to breathe

 

Time to love

 

Time to dream

 

Life   Life  Life

Things are not life

That's the thing about life....

There are some things you just have to put aside now and then

to be alive

 

Shakespeare said:

There is a place and a means for every man alive

Go...find it today

and don't let any thing get in your way

and that's poetiquejustis

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Matthew 6:25

 

Count Down

Not everything that counts

can be counted

and not everything that can be counted

counts

A. Einstein

I have never counted  children's smiles

but they are more precious than gold

I have never counted my lover's kisses

and yet they never grow old

Counting seems a simple way

of knowing what you have lost

But loving the good that comes your way

means  you never count the cost

and that's poetiquejustis

When troubles of any kind come your way, count it as an opportunity for great joy.  For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.  So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.

James 1:2

Which Way Did I Go?

Action without vision 

is just passing the time

Jack Barker

Going somewhere?

or....

Waiting for someone to give you directions?

Tell you where to go and what to do?

Interesting thing about life's directions:

You have to be moving forward

In order to see

the way to go

and that's poetiquejustis

I am still not all I should be, but I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 

Philippians 3:13 

Rock On

Energy and persistence conquer all things.  Benjamin Franklin and....

There are days I want to quit - we all have those days!

We want to thrown in the towel.

Stay down for the count

Never come out of the corner again

But then- the bell rings

That "bell" in our head that says

keep going

And we take life on for

 just one more round

Because that is who we are

And that is what we do.

and that's poetiquejustis

No weapon formed against me shall prosper

Isaiah 54:17

Count it all joy

Only a few things are really important

Marie Drexler

One:  Giving Love 

Two: Receiving Love

Three:

Having peace

Having it

Four:  Sharing peace

Five:  

Caring

For yourself 

Six:  caring for  others

Six small acts

that change every thing

every day

for every one

and that's poetiquejustis

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12: 30-31

Refuse to be overwhelmed!

To those on the ground, take a message back for me

Tell them how I am

Defying gravity

from Wicked

The gravity of the situation

Those grave and weighty matters

That keep us down

That press us down

That keeps our vision at ground - down level where oddly enough those things can never be changed

There are times that you just have to defy gravity

                                            Give the grave, the weighty, the ponderous a smile

And keep smiling

until it lets you go!

and that's poetiquejustis

 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart,

for God has already approved what you do.

                                                                      Ecclesiastes 9:7